We Found A New Home!

After only a few days of house hunting, we found the rental property that we're going to call home - for the next six months at least.

Saturday was a blazing hot day here in Welly and we set out around 2pm to go to three separate viewings - according to the map, they were within walking distance of each other. Well, the first one was at the top of a very, very, very tall hill .... when we got up there, panting and sweating, we were told sorry, it's been taken already! Duh! Couldn't they have put a notice at the bottom of the path? But we didn't mind too much as we'd decided about half way up that there was no way we'd take this place, no matter how cute it was .. imagine doing that slog with your weekly grocery shopping!

The second place had potential except for one very strange thing: the floor in the lounge was concave! It curved gently up towards the fireplace, leveled off for about a foot, then curved back down again ... very odd! There was also an odd smell in one room, as if someone had kept an animal in there for a while - so we decided to give it a miss and went off hurry-scurry to the last viewing. It was a two-level apartment within a complex at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac - lovely views out over the hills, warm and sunny, french doors out onto a private balcony, wooden staircase up to the two beds and bathroom (which has a bath - about four out of every five places we considered had only a shower!) and lots of trees and greenery. We both liked it immediately and had a good chat with the owner/landlord - he called us later that evening to offer it to us, we went back today at lunchtime and signed the tenancy agreement!

Here it is - and we move in next Friday, at which time there'll no doubt be a lot more pictures to show.