Sunday, August 3, 2008

The Spanish Apartment

We are starting to feel at home in our apartment in Barcelona. Those of you who have not seen the movie L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment), go rent it and watch it. For those of you have seen the movie, our situation is kind of like that.

We have seven people in our flat, but only one bathroom. It is often difficult to get into the bathroom. Also, someone always seems to be using the clothes washer.

However, everyone seems fairly nice, even though we don't see them often. The residents include the owner, who is local, a guy from Argentina, a guy from Taiwan, a mother and daughter from Columbia, and us.

Aside from all of the people, the apartment itself is quite nice. We are on the top floor of an old building, so we have a large terrace where we can relax.The bathroom is nice, as well, when we can get into it.Here is the view from our bedroom window:Here is the view from the terrace:Here is our bedroom:
And here is me typing at our desk:We are starting to figure out the patterns of our lives. We walk to school but have spent the weekend familiarizing ourselves with the metro system. We can purchase a ten-use public-transportation pass for seven euro, so it is very affordable to get around. It just takes some planning and knowledge of where the buses or subways go.

We took the wrong bus the other day. Since there are a lot more buses than subway lines, the buses are much more confusing.

I'm sure we'll have everything figured out shortly before we leave.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

nice hair kurd. schlitz is back.

Anonymous said...

I thought i was told you never ever put your hair up in a hairband. But it appears here you are. I hope, it is probably hot in Spain. If otherwise let me know. A.

Unknown said...

The place looks neat... sucks about having just one bathroom... at least it's not a honey pot type of thing into the streets... hehe :) It looks like you have soe nice sun there... we are missing that in Fairbanks... Hope you guys are having fun getting the hang of things!
~Christina

Anonymous said...

that movie made me go back to germany. and i saw it right before i went to barcelona, too. awesome.

Next Flix said...

look at your multiple commenters named christina. awesome!