Slept soundly!

OK, it's a relative term for me - 'soundly' means I only woke a couple of times, sipped some water, noted the time, went straight back to sleep.  For me that's 'sound'.  Reason?  We are finally narrowing down our choices, and it is between two new apartments  -  places where we can imagine our furniture in place.

Here, some nice places just have no way of easily moving in furniture - some would require windows removed and fork lifts to be used from the street - and I kid you not, it does happen every day here.  Imagine tiny twisting staircases - often in places that have the living UP the stairs and sleeping DOWN the stairs - when you are local you just cope, but many delightful places we saw failed often when one considered getting our stuff inside the house..............so, although the 1930 place in Duinoord was so very, very nice - one level, elevator access - we are going for brand new in the area known as Vogelwijk - vogel means 'bird' and 'wijk' means suburb.  It's on the edge of Statenkwartier and is a 9 minute walk from lovely cafes, and beautiful shopping streets moments away.  The harbour is 10 minutes away (less by bike) and in summer is the setting for many, many terraces where folk just go to enjoy the beach, water and the weather.

Speaking of weather, it is currently 8, sunny and quite warm sitting in this window.  It will turn colder this weekend, but no rain to speak of.  Maybe we'll see 10 this afternoon, but really quite pleasant late February weather.  One month of winter left, so looking good so far!

Just read that my old school in Brisbane was evacuated today because of fumes, and one teacher taken to hospital for checks.  No children were affected, but I have yet to hear more from the school.  Glad it wasn't major!

We're escaping for lunch out and a walk around our potential new neighbourhood before inspecting our two choices at 4pm with a makelaar and a friend.  No doubt we'll end up at a cafe for the evening - much nicer than drinking at home (which we mainly do here now).

NB These are artist impressions - real pics to follow.