Our new home

Hello again! It´s been a while since I last got to update the blog, as I haven´t had an internet connection at my disposal, but now I can use the computer room at the university of Castilla La Mancha to do at least some online stuff. A couple of weeks back we found our new home and moved in - the easiest move I´ve ever had, as I didn´t bring too much stuff to Spain. Because of some limitations of the network here I can´t put the photos of the flat directly to the blog for now, but here´s a link that will take you to the folder in Picasa:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ville.pulkkanen/TheApartment

A few comments on the photos and the flat... The first ones are from the yard of the building, showing the building itself and the recreational areas: the pools and the sporting grounds. The swimming pools ain´t really for swimming as they´re a little bit small for that, but it sure must be refreshing to dip in on a hot summer day (about 40 degrees celsius in the hottest period of the summer). This year we didn´t get to enjoy that, as we moved in at the end of September.

The photo with Rocío peeking from the terrace shows our windows. The white things outside them are called "persiana" and are there to block the sunlight and it´s heat in the summer. More or less every house in Spain is equipped with those. Moreover, they also provide an excellent function of darkening the room completely if needed and man, I´ll tell you I´ve never slept as good as here with the persiana down :) The picture shows on the left the terrace, next to it the kitchen window, next to the right the living room and finally the bedroom. The flat has a lot of light as every room has a window.

The next photos show the parking garage and the door to our storage in front of the car, the hallway of our stairway with the mailboxes and our front door.

Inside the apartment, when moving it looks like moving no matter how little things you bring with you ;) In short time we were settled though and this is how the flat looks now. First you see the entrance "hall" and then the kitchen, which I like a lot as it has lots of space and is well equipped. A few pics from the toilet also, and as you can see on the second one, there´s something extra in the spanish version compared to the finnish one. The next photos are from the living room, which also has the dining table. The sofa opens up to be a two-person bed, so visitors are welcome :) The second last photo is the bedroom, or well, the bed mostly, as it was difficult to fit the whole room to the picture (Heta and Äiti, here´s where I sleep ;).

The last photo shows our first visitors, Esther and her boyfriend David, who study English Philology in the university like Rocío.