The Apartment

It's our third full day here, and we are settling in. Sandy survived her first foray to the grocery store, and I've survived my first two days in the office. Our air shipment is not scheduled to arrive for another week, so we continue to live out of our suitcases. But it is starting, ever so gradually, to feel like home. With that in mind, I thought it was time to show you around the place.

We have one basic living area - a living room combined with the dining room. A little compact, but fine for the two of us.

The kitchen is also small by U.S. standards, but is the largest and nicest of all the apartments we toured when we were searching for a place to live. Special prize for all who can identify the refrigerator and dishwasher.

We have three bedrooms and three bathrooms, one of the best features of the unit and pretty rare in Dublin as far as we could tell. The rooms are small, but it gives us some needed flexibility. Here's a look down the hallway.

Lastly, the bathrooms are all nicely appointed, with marble and beautiful cabinetry. Turns out the owner of the apartment is a cabinet-maker, and his work is on display. Here's one example.

All in all, we are very pleased with our home and confident it will meet our needs. In a future post I'll tell you about storage space (or should I say, the lack thereof). Today is Saturday, and we are headed back to Tesco for another major shopping/stocking-up effort. This will involve a 30 minute walk, and a taxi ride back. But the sun is peeking out...or it was a moment ago...in any case, it's not raining. And that's a GREAT day in Ireland.