Friday 20 April 2007

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.

Tuesday 10 April 2007

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