Advertisement
Rua Xingu (our street)
Aptly the name of our street (Xingu) is also the name of a local beer.Six weeks of living in a hotel room and we were very ready to move into our house. Luckily there was the short change of scenery in Argentina when the Belo Horizonte hotel room was replaced by one in Buenos Aires, so I wasn’t quite climbing the walls when it was time to move out.
We were taken to look at a few places before we chose the house that we are now living in. We saw a mix of houses and apartments, they were all fully furnished, but none were places we were keen to live in (generally they were places people were about to move from and they had been their homes for the last gazillion years and when it said fully furnished it meant they were leaving EVERYTHING behind).
As a result we chose an unfurnished house, literally unfurnished, to the extent you provide your own stove. The situation here is also similar to Australia where the majority of rentals are unfurnished and you can get a lot more for your money if this is what you select, so that was why we chose the house we did.
Our place is larger than we were originally
Living Room & Dance Floor
Clearly a current lack of furniture, but the space for the dining table has proven to be an excellent dance floor. anticipating. It is 2 storey, upstairs there are five bedrooms (each with an ensuite) and a tv area, downstairs a study, kitchen, laundry and large combined living/dining room. There is also a large outdoor entertaining area, complete with built in kitchen (now just need to get a stove and fridge for out there), traditional Brasilian churrasca barbeque and a swimming pool. It will at least be the perfect size for a couple of weeks at Christmas time when our families are going to be joining us.
We have started the furniture purchasing expeditions, we bought the basics to allow us to comfortably move in and the nicer items (which also have 1-2 month lead times) are to follow. There is some really nice furniture here, so some purchases will definitely be returning to Australia with us at some point.
Unfortunately although we do have a stove it has yet to be connected to the gas, so I am still really hanging out to cook! At least we have a fridge and pantry full of food (and beer) ready in anticipation!
Pics to be added in the next couple of days.
Advertisement
Tot: 0.352s; Tpl: 0.029s; cc: 9; qc: 50; dbt: 0.2893s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1;
; mem: 1.1mb
