Hallo! We have moved into our new home! V. excited. It is spacious but vaguely 80's Chinese/German, oweing to our landlords - a local Shanghainese and her German expat husband. We cleared away the dusty wreath, plastic gourds and rubber angel as soon as we'd paid the bond. But it is clean and in a good spot near a local market with lots of public transport, and not too far from the city centre. AND we have a spare room if anyone wants to come and stay with us! Click below for a bit of a peek...
We both got a little stressed out earlier this week, as we were supposed to register our presence with the police within 72 hours of our arrival. The scheming hostel manager would not give us the documents to do this unless we signed up for another month. Bitch! So we were very relieved that we liked the first place we looked at and were able to move in the very next day! Ama, our landlady, helped us out with the police, she seems to know them and just about everyone else in the neighbourhood so that was handy for us. So now we can enjoy the New Year's festivities without having to worry about being deported. The fireworks have already started to go off at random times, day and night. Sometimes it almost drowns out the ever-present car horns...
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oooOOOOooo!
What a funky little place you've scored! Looks lovely, and you got a great landlady to boot, I'm sure she'll come in handy.
Happy Chinese New Year!
Good to hear from you both
Wow! That looks nice! I was kinda expecting a dump - but how wrong I was...Rach and I have never had a full-sized bath, so that bath would be normal for us!
Haus in Deutsch is 'das Haus' (neutral) - therefore a new house would be 'Neues Haus!' ;-)
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