our home & co.

We live in a old house that probably has seen it's days of glory go by many years ago. It's not so charming from the outside, but has a nice ambiance inside in our little one room and a kitchen hut. It's charming I think, and it has got a very nice little outdoors space, like a Swedish wood veranda with glass windows facing a small garden. I like it a lot, and it's close to the huge fruit and vegetable market and other stores and coffee shops and things. Nice! It's also very, very close to a small indoors swimming pool and library, and 4 evenings per week they have a free hour of swimming, so I go there as often as I can now. Very nice! I'm gonna be swimming myself to success! (and slim down from my three months of laziness and good food and M's homemade amazing wine and all nice locally brewed beer)
The only real downside with or apartment is our neighbor. Actually, it's not him who is the problem, he's really nice, it's just that in between our apartments the walls seems to be made out of rise paper or something, it used to be a big house and they seem to have just split the first floor into 2 apartments, without much thought behind it. And the neighbor love playing the radio with bad music, and watch football games loud on TV with hectic commentators screaming in French. I hear him cooking food, putting down the glass on the table, walking around, talking over the phone, snore during night, and sometimes I can even hear him fart...
Besides him we have a funny but friendly housewife next door, who seems to have her goal in life set on keeping track on what her neighbors does - or doesn't do. She invited me over to view her apartment, showing EVERY room, including the bathroom, asking me over and over if I didn't think it was Oh! so beautiful?! Well, I must say - it was different. Very kitschy Italian style with gold and pink and plastic and porcelain figurines everywhere, even in the bathroom. We also has got a very nice neighbor to the right who has a small white dog called Sushi - we were thinking of getting a cat named Soya.