Who would have thought it would be so difficult to find a new home for us to stay in for the next year... This task proved to be frustrating, time-consuming and tiresome! (Hence the reason for not blogging!) After driving around days on end looking at places and not finding anything remotely suitable - one starts to get very despondent... We had to find a place that would fit in all our furniture - which is not easy when you are wanting to live in the city suburbs as apartments are really small. Most places we looked at did not have a full kitchen - and as you know Sean and I both enjoy cooking so these places would not have worked as there was just not enough counter space to prepare food...
The way in which you see apartments in Melbourne is that the apartment is "open for inspection" with a leasing agent at a certain time on a certain day and only for 15 minutes - miss this time and its gone!
Finally after weeks of searching through about 40 apartments - we found a lovely apartment in a lovely location! It is in the suburb called Port Melbourne which is the suburb close to the bay. Shops and restaurants are a few meters away from our apartment and the bay is just down the road. There is a lovely path along the bay where one can walk, so we are planning to start running along this route soon.
Our apartment is also close to Seans work - about 4km. So Sean can ride his bicycle to work or run to work if he feels like it.
We have moved into the apartment with rented furniture for now, but our container arrives on Monday so we cannot wait to get settled with our own belongings around us!
Looking forward to living in this apartment for the next year! Will post photos soon.
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