Mon Feb 13

Missed this one out - oops!


Monday Feb
13 - Den Haag

This
evening I'm feeling quite tired. We had
a full day viewing five properties and walking, walking, walking. The first
property was Parkstraat 69 and I quite liked it - owned by a now retired French
couple who sell special valves to the oil industry (it's a living!) The town house was used as a residence and
office and would be great with a little bit done to it - but not sure about it.

After a
coffee it was walk, walk, walk to the next makelaar at the next property. He was very good as well and took us around
in his rented (waiting for a new BMW lease vehicle) Citroen C1 - the size of a
suitcase on wheels - very nice for ultra basic transport. We saw a regular house (not happening!) then
an apartment in Archipel (the islands area) which was nice but not enough boxes
ticked. We then went to an apartment
complex opposite the Australian Embassy on Laan van Meerdervoort that we really
liked (garden plus terrace and car park space) but apparently someone has an
offer on it subject to the sale of their home and so we make an offer and the
person decides if they want to go on with the purchase, or not. Great spot and you'd never know a significant
road was outside the complex. This we'll
follow up. Then on to a penthouse of
only 115sqm with a terrace of 70sqm on the 10th floor overlooking
Statenkwartier and Scheveningen. Nice, but not large enough. We went back to the office and got some
details of a new apartment complex right near the harbour so later in the week
(Thursday??) we'll investigate those.

Back into
the Centrum - walk, walk, walk - we went to MediaMarkt and bought a filter
coffee maker (Philips, of course) with a thermos carafe - it's old fashioned
but we like our brewed coffee - forget espresso machines and Nespresso thingamajigs
- just coffee and filter papers and bloody good coffee in quantity every
time. I also bought an all in one
desktop computer (Asus) operating on Windows 7 and a 1080 monitor/hard drive
combined in one unit. It was a challenge
bringing everything home on the bus, but we did it. Then we had to go out again and do food
shopping because we were weighed down before with 'stuff'.

Now I know
why I'm feeling tired.....