House tour!

People have asked about where we're staying, so I'm posting a few pictures. We're out in the suburbs this time, like my new university. It took me about 20 minutes to get from home to the university this morning on a bus. (First day of new job! That needs its own post!) We found the house through airbnb. And it was a great find. The house is just lovely.

There is a large (for here) kitchen, with dishwasher. Dishwasher is a very nice feature. Also, the cupboards are stocked with lots of useful dishes and appliances. The place we stayed a year ago in Melbourne also had stocked cupboards, but not with very useful stuff. No need to buy our own frying pan this time, for example. 

Living room looking into the dining room.

Third bedroom. This will be Tim's office. Since Tim is still working with people in California (remotely), his workday will start at 3:00 in the morning. Poor Tim. He headed to bed just after 7pm tonight so he could make it to that first 3am meeting.

Laundry room. Only a washing machine this time, no dryer. The dryer is that rack against the door. Although we will miss having a machine dryer, it will be nice to have laundry in its own room rather than sharing a single bathroom with the rest of us.

First bathroom, for Jonathan.

Second bathroom, adjacent to the master bedroom. When we were trying to sell our house in the mountain west of the US, the feedback we got in the land of massive homes was that our master bathroom was too small. When we arrived here, the master bathroom was just as small, but our reaction was pure joy. We don't have to share one bathroom with three people!

Jonathan's bedroom. Somebody didn't make his bed this morning.

Master bedroom.

That's all. It's very tastefully decorated and well equipped. We will be very happy here for the month.

My only complaint is clothing storage. There are no dressers in any of the rooms. All we get are the hangers in the closet, and the small drawers you see next to the beds. That's a little uncomfortable for a whole month. But we've improvised. Summer clothes are staying in the suitcases, because it's cold and winter here. Jonathan is using a rolling cart from the kitchen in his closet to form a couple of shelves. Tim and I are stacking clothes on a shoe rack in our closet. It will work.

We are very happy to be here.