The yellow building seen here is the house of our landlord. Our house is down the driveway in between that building and the building that you can just see the top of (to the right of the yellow house).
The white building (that is being attached by the ivy) is our German residence.
Welcome to our very, very humble abode.
Entering the front door, you are greeted by these old and intimidating steps into our apartment. Normally, above the steps, you can see a vast array of creatures of the arachnid variety.
Turning left from the top of the steps, you will enter our kitchen/dining/games room. The tiny box on the shelf there is our stove - it's not the size of the stove that counts, it's how it cooks the food.... right???
Turning around from the table, you will see our modest kitchen.
Guess what room you will have to enter to see this poster?
That's right, the washroom!!! This picture basically includes the entire washroom. If you look close enough, you can actually see both of the walls to the next rooms on either side of this photo. The really funny thing about this washroom is seen below...
See if you can spot the following items in this picture:
* Toilette
* Sink
* Shower
* Clothes washer
* The corner of our bed
This is our wash/laundry/shower/living/bed room. Basically, the toilet is directly connected to both the bedroom and the kitchen. The only thing that divides it, is a little foldy sliding door. I've never had a shower box directly installed into a room like this before.....it's interesting to say the least. Then there's the washing machine. This thing is crazy!!!! It's tiny as hell, we have to manually connect it to the sink for it to get water, we drain it into a massive metal 'Coke' garbage can (which I then have to pick up and pour into the toilette, mid cycle before it overfills), and it has a jet engine inside it, which makes the thing jump like half a foot in the air when it starts its spin cycle..... I'm not kidding, a half a freaking foot in the air!!!
The laundry plumbing.
Our high tech drainage system. We were hoping to get sponsored by Coke-a-cola for this little setup, but we're still waiting for our cheque to be sent in the mail.
If you're wondering why we use our living room as our bedroom, when our house has two proper bedrooms, it is for this reason....
This is our bedroom v1.0, or as we like to call it - "The mold farm". We stayed in this bedroom for about two months, sleeping on this very same mattress before we noticed a little moisture issue. Those markings on the mattress are not decorative flowers from Seely, Serta, or Simmons....we were sleeping on a moldy bed (see my facial expression in this picture).
It didn't stop at the mattress either, it lined the walls beside it as well. Blaw!!!!!
Needless to say, we moved into the living room, because it seems to be the only moisture free room in the house (besides the kitchen). We have now closed off about 3/4 of the house, and we are living in the two multi-purpose rooms noted above. This is our bed, which is on the flip side of the laundry/shower/washroom in the room. The rats have the room above ours (in the ceiling), but they have recently packed away for the winter, or forever (our landlord just got rid of them with a bunch of poison)..... what a healthy place to live:)
The best part about our house is, however, our flower, Rhod Simsii....he's great!!! It's really funny, Lydia and I normally name everything anyway, but for some reason, this flower had the name "Rhod Simsii" written on it when we first got it. When Lydia and I come home for the day, we never feel like we're alone, because we always get to greet everyone else that stays at our place (in Lydia and my voice - "Hi Rhod Simsii, hi mold, hi rats!").
It's probably for the best though that we're leaving this place in a couple of days - I guess there's normally a reason why a two bedroom apartment is 250 Euros a month ($375 Canadian).
Here now, is my amazing flying tour of our house. Enjoy!
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