Pictures from our apartment

So, our apartment is finally finished. The workers are still working on the last apartment and there is also some other stuff that needs to be done, but our place is looking good! We also got a long way with decorating the place, although there are some boxes still left unpacked. Here are some picture that Susanne's mom took. She actually tidied up each place for the picture and then moved excess stuff to another room, etc. etc. :-)

Our terrace with a view on the nature area and Susanne's mother drinking coffee.

Our new terrace furniture with Susanne's dad.

Our guest room bed, which is also a couch.

Susanne's father cooking in our kitchen (unrealistic!).

Our living room, the kitchen is to the left, the terrace outside the windows.

Our bedroom.

The hallway (it only looks so tidy on this picture...)

The bathroom.

For viewing the rest and from all angles, please stop by!

Our beautiful plant

We could not bring one of our plants. The was simply not any suitable space left for it in the van. Normally it is just green, but look what happens when Susanne's mother takes care of it:

We sleep well!

So we finally have our own place here in Jena. We picked up the keys last Friday morning. Friday afternoon we drove to Denmark, to Susanne's parents. There we could rest a bit before the big movement weekend. On Saturday we drove to Copenhagen and there we packed all our stuff, plus we got rid of a lot of stuff at the recycling station. Then, the next day we got some help from Mikkel, Ebbe and Sveinn, and together we carried all the stuff down from the third floor and filled up the rented truck. We ended up loading it pretty efficient and almost used all of our 13 m3. After a night over at Susanne's parents on the way back, we arrived at our new place Monday late in the afternoon. We packed out half of our stuff and I reassembled the bed. We slept good after all the hard work! On Tuesday, Dennis and Julia came to help to carry up the rest of our furniture. In the afternoon we picked up our stuff that we already had in Jena, it was stored at Julia's place. There we got some help from Rona. Since, Tuesday was a holiday here in Germany, one of the restaurants in Cospeda had put their grill outside and served nice meat, bratwurst and cold beer. We thought we had deserved this and sat down a little while. Thereafter we took a tour in our new backyard (a nature reserve). We went to bed early and slept incredibly well again :-) Now slowly everything is getting right, but there is still lots of decoration to do. Also missing: our terrace floor, which should be built on Monday.

Thanks to everyone that helped us moving!!!

Still waiting for our apartment...

We already decided on an apartment a couple of months ago. It is a nice apartment in a town on top of a hill just outside Jena. It is just next to a nature reserve and has great views. Especially from the big terrace. When we visited it back then, the apartment was not done yet. The outside was pretty much done, but the whole interior needed to be built.

Our apartment is the middle one on the right.

We could see that this would take a while, but thought we could move in at the beginning of April. It became clear to us that this wouldn't happen. We did visit the place and took some pictures.

This is our kitchen/living room. The kitchen is red yes, but it is actually kind of nice with a bit of color against the white walls. There are missing some electric installations and the change between the tiles and the rest of the floor.

This is a view on our 15m2 terrace. It is facing directly south and has a good view. The floor is still missing on this picture. All windows have these metal shutters on the outside.

This is the other living room. Here the status of the doors can be seen (or not seen, because they are missing).

All-in-all there isn't that much missing:

• Some electrical work
• Placement of bath, sink, toilet
• All doors on the inside
• Terrace floor
• Some other small things like list between the floors and the walls at some places.

so we hope to move in at May 1st.

Now we are online!

Hello everybody.
So we finally got our blog started. Here you will be able to find pic's and pieces of our lives here in Jena, Germany. We first moved here about 5 months ago when Susanne got a ph.d. position at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, but since it takes a while to get settled and such we didn't get around to it until now. So hopefully in the next week or so we will get you all updated on our experiences with german living so far. Have fun with it.

Calin and Susanne