antwerp!

Dear Everyone who sometimes check on this blog,

yes, its been a good week and a bit since my last entry - but i have good reason for this; we now have an apartment in Antwerp! [thats in Belgium, by the way.....hey, i wasn't sure what in Europe was where in the beginning..]

and we've been busy running around getting assorted things for the house, as well as rolling up our sleeves for some serious house painting! Now we were house hunting almost 2 weeks ago, and narrowed our 10+ options to the last 2, the first of which was next to a church and a skip away from a nice - quiet square with restaurants and frituurs [that's a kebab shop - in a nutshell]. This one was ready to move in, but had a bit of a small living room (about the size of a HDB 3 room flat living room size), and didn't have a spare room for any visitors who want to bunk over..

the other option - which is obviously the one we have been eating, sleeping and painting in the past week, is along a small lane which is really quiet, but is about 40m from a pedestrian walkway which is a main artery into Antwerp city..in Orchard Road terms, we're sort of living in the Cairnhill area - near enough to walk into the main city, by far enough for it to still be quiet..

so our apartment is a good 50m2 with a healthy sized living room, a hall with built in coat cupboards, and, even a balcony out the back which overlooks a playground for the neighbouring kindergarten, with trees and a bit of space..

and its got the spare room lah, so you guys can head on over..

at this point, i need to say that the place needed a fresh coat of paint and some re-flooring, mainly because the surface, although in excellent condition, were by the previous tenant who lived there almost 40 years..so we are busy sprucing up the house..and that's also why i haven't had the impetus to take any pictures...hopefully by the next post, i will give you a room by room rundown..

so yeah, we're about a week or two away from fully outfitting the apartment with a trip to IKEA and the electronics store, but we're stoked!

--another thing, i realised that you can only leave comments if you have a blogger a/c - i think a gmail a/c also allows you to do this--

ok, gtg its 3pm here...and i've got to get back to some house painting..

more updates in a bit..

--Keefe and Josefine