Our apartment (Deborah)

Here are some pics of our apartment.

Dining and living area

We watch a little TV to help us learn or at least continue to hear Spanish spoken, and maybe put words with pictures to make some sense of things. Slow process, but helping a little.

Our bedroom

Our room also has a nice size wardrobe (can't see from picture), a chest of drawers, and 2 small nightstands.

One of children's rooms

 Here is a pic of one of the children's rooms.  They are all 3 very similar.  But we moved mattresses and desks around, so 2 children are in one room, 1 in another, and 1 on couch that folds out (thought we were getting another bed, but this works). So now 2 desks (one with our laptop) is in 4th bedroom. All bedrooms have a wardrobe, desk, and a small nightstand. 

 

Kitchen

Small kitchen, but sufficient.  I am learning to cook with the oven and stove--it is very different.  My pocket translator is also helpful with metric conversions, which comes in very handy for setting oven temps.

Can you see small white washer in back on left?  Also, area is for storing mop, broom, has lines for hanging clothes to dry (dryers are extremely rare here).

Then there's the bathroom with sink, shower, toilet, and bidet (it's a Europe/East Asia thing--I'll let you look that one up if you don't know and are curious). Also has a decent medicine/storage cabinet and linen cabinet.

Last is the terrace/balcony overlooking our street. Only you have to turn your head right to see it correctly (blogger isn't smart enough to rotate it like other programs are, either that or we aren't.)





Things are small, different, and sometimes slightly inconvenient, but never dull--it is a good experience for us.

Some of you asked for our address, so here it is for anyone who would like to have it:
Carrer Dels Enamorats 70 3er 4a
08013 Barcelona Spain
(Addresses are written a little different here. First our street, then our apartment unit no. (70). We're on the 3rd floor (not counting the ground floor), apartment 4.