View from our second floor balcony.
Philip did a heroic job of walking/motorcycling the streets looking for 'to rent' signs while I tried to keep the kids entertained back at the guesthouse. Our new house is a short walk to language school in one direction and Soren's kinder in the other. Fantastic.
The boys enjoy the small yard, and lots of space to play inside.
The house came with basic furniture but it was still quite a task getting it set up. A wonderful new friend lent us his motorcycle for a week, and took us in his car to a big electronics store.
The house was full of dirt and dead critters when we moved in. Taps, toilets, powerpoints and the water pump were broken or missing. Figuring out what on earth was going on with the workmen became a cross-cultural comedy of errors, but after 10 days of no reliable running water, I was running out of laughs!
Now it is clean and functioning, we love our new home.
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What a shocker - no hot water for 10 days! You're my hero! And Phil looked SO cool on the motorbike. SO wish we could pop over! xxx
ReplyDeleteLuuuggzhury! (tongue in cheek of course)
ReplyDelete:) No hot water for extended periods of time is common place across Russia in the Summer time. We were out for 10 days a week after arriving in May. It's all scheduled though, for maintenance purposes. We will be without hot water again for two weeks in August.
It's so good to be able to make a home. How many moves have you guys had now? We have had 13 in 7 and a half years of marriage.
We really enjoyed painting chairs recently- a very "settling" thing to do. Abigail loved it too.
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