Yes, we are here and yes, I actually am trying to “blog” whatever that means. It has been 10 days since we have arrived and we have really gotten a lot accomplished. I have to say I am surprised that we are as settled in as we are.
When we first got here we were staying in a shared apartment where Dima’s friend Sergio (formally known as Sergey in Rusia) lives. The woman who owns it is called Tatianna and is somewhat off the wall. Some nights she would sleep behind a curtain in the kitchen and jump out to say hello if you crossed her path while she was awake. The kitchen was across the hall from the shared bathroom (yes, this sucked horribly) and I had a mini-freak out every time I had to pee. Plus our door-knob that led to the main hall was broken so it would about 3-10 spind to get the door open. This process was noisy and it was not uncommon for a stranger who was staying down the hall to open the door from the outside to assist us from being stuck. Ugh, so uncomfortable. I do have to say the experience of living in this shared apartment in a foreign country was so crazy that it was like a sit-com. We were highly disturbed most of the time but laughed a lot every step of the way…except in the middle of the night when I had to go to the bathroom. We have since moved out of our shared apartment into our temporary-permanent digs. Thank God! LOL!
Our new place is located in the Born neighborhood of Barcelona.
Google map of our location in Barcelona. You have to hit the search button for some reason after you click the link, but it will work then… 🙂
We are a 10-15 minute walk to the water and about a 5-10 minute walk to Plaza Catalunya, which is the center of town. I post some pics once I take some. Our place is small but I have to be honest, I don’t really mind it. For the past few months we were living at Dima’s parents so this is actually a bigger space than I am accustomed to. It is funny what you get used to and how your needs change based on that. I think at least that is the case now, when our addition comes I am not so sure our needs will be so flexible…
Any0-hoo I am going to jet and write more in a new post once we get going with this living in another country thing.
Much love!
Jen (and a little splash of Dima)
I love the story about Tatianna. I should do that to Vadik one day. 🙂 Super glad you started to blog; I started to wonder if you were going to skip-out on us. 🙂
No skippin out! Although it is sometimes tough to get started… it is not exactly where I want it but I am thinking with time it will just get there. 🙂
hugs and belly hi-5’s!!!