Apartment

It will be a few weeks before all of our belongings will arrive from Paris, but we managed to bring the bare essentials with us so we can get by until then. Lori picked our new home when she was here in May and once again she did a great job. We are right on the waterfront overlooking the harbour.

The apartment itself is very nice. Unlike our place in Paris, this one is modern and spacious. The layout in the main living area is very similar to our condo in Calgary so it feels right to us. It will look a little sparse until our stuff gets here.

We have a great balcony and also unlike Paris we can have a BBQ. It's a Masport from New Zealand and I'm impressed with it.

We've been busy this week, buying things for the apartment and getting all of our services set up. I have my phone switched over and we have our TV and internet hooked up. The TV package is pretty good. It's not HD but there are a lot of channels available. Most are from Australia but there are a couple of local channels as well. We also get channels like HBO, Discovery and National Geographic. I was even watching live coverage of The British Open tonight.

The internet is a different story however. It is unbelievably slow and unreliable. Even uploading the pictures to the blog was difficult. There is not much we can do about it so we'll just have to get used to it. We'll have to go old school and rent DVD's instead of watching Netflix.

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