Fri Feb 10

Friday Feb
10 - Den Haag

Today was a
quiet day, much the same as other days lately.
We met a makelaar at Kleine Nobelstraat and inspected a very nice
apartment almost in the centre of town on two levels - had a lovely three
bedrooms layout on the lower level BUT the living area upstairs was just too
small for our furniture. The car park in
the basement is accessed via a car elevator, and there was also loads of
storage space. We then went to a double
upstairs house that was very nice in so many ways but just didn't really grab
us both. It had actually been renovated
three years ago and was nicely done seeing as though the owner actually wanted
to live in his renovation after it was completed unlike the other renos we've
seen so far done just to make a quick buck.

We walked
home following that visit for lunch and then Rene shopped and I went and
arranged more visits for Monday and Wednesday at a nearby makelaar. I noticed that in the next block from our
place is the Austrian Embassy in a very nice, but unpretentious, building part
of a long terrace. The major nation's
embassies bye and large here are quite large and in prominent inner city
locations.

Rene cooked
chilli con carne tonight in a new frying pan bought from V & D this
morning. It is Dutch manufactured, not
far from here in Zoetemeer, and was quite expensive but so much better to use
than what we have here in the apartment.
New definition of 'desperate' - viewing (and not really minding) the
film 'Get Smart' and laughing out loud a couple of times. Yes, you guessed it; the long promised net
connection didn't happen today. Roll on
Monday.

Point of
interest: Australian real estate agents
do their best selling and viewing on a Saturday, and sometimes Sundays. Not here.
Real estate is strictly Mon - Fri in Nederlands, so we have no viewings
tomorrow so a whole day to go around and see more places in the city. Sunday we're off to the south for a
birthday/family day. Haven't seen the
family since we were last here two years ago. Should be lovely.