A Garden of My Own!
Buenos Aires - Time for an update on the apartment process. I’ve found one! I admit to not having looked at a huge number of them because I really loved the first one I saw. That’s often the way these things work. It’s here in the same (Barrio Norte) neighborhood, only a couple of blocks from where I’ve been for the last few months. It’s a duplex one bedroom - four rooms in total, with 1½ baths, a small patio outside the kitchen (laundry, herb growing), and a large patio and backyard off the living room! A garden! I’ve never had my very own garden, and I’m thrilled! Brand new kitchen (includes stove/oven, but have to get my own refrigerator), new plumbing, new electric. Very sort of modern design blended with older architecture, like the high cloister-ish walls around the garden.
Pictures of the place in its current state are here. More to come as the process unfolds. Meeting with the escribano (sort of the equivalent of a notary public, but they do a whole lot more here) for the first time later today.
July 2nd, 2006 at 11:08 am
[...] Buenos Aires - I recently “celebrated” the one year anniversary of this blog, and given that I launched into it as I began my adventures outside of New York, it’s no surprise that another birthday pops up. My arrival in Buenos Aires to, potentially at that point, live, was July 2, 2005, a grey, drizzly day punctuated only by the food experience of my first provoletta, and a mediocre one at that. Wow! A year here already, amazing how time flies, it sometimes feels like I’ve barely arrived, and other times like I’ve been here for quite a long time. I’ve learned a new language, explored a new culture (with much left on both counts to accomplish), I’ve been in a happy, live-in relationship for the entire time, I bought an apartment in a “foreign” country, I’ve opened a business there as well, experienced a cyclone, been threatened by border guards in Bolivia… Not things I would have predicted a mere twelve months ago. [...]