Our new apartment is all we could have hoped for. Its superb location, high ceilings typical for buildings if its time period, and general "Altbau" (old building) charm has made it a super comfortable home for David, Juliet, and myself. My mother Mariana and her partner Karl had already assembled an IKEA bed for us and, most importantly, got a litter box for Juliet, by the time we arrived. Our new place is a typical "2-Zimmer-Wohnung" (2 bedroom apartment), with a bedroom, a living room, a kitchen, and a bathroom, which by the way is humungous!
The house we are living is in an eight-party apartment house. One of the apartments is mostly empty as my landlady and her husband use it when they visit the city. The rest of the apartments are inhabited by students, with the exception of my next-door neighbor, who lives by herself and spends the weekend with her boyfriend in Hamburg.
The house itself is a little atypical for Lüneburg's "Altstadt" (old town) as it was built about 160 years ago, during the "Gründerzeit" (Founder's Era), mid- to late 19th century, marked by economic prosperity. The architecture of the time reflects that as the buildings of that time tend to have multiple stories, high ceilings, and often elaborate facades.
Here are my mother Mariana and I leaving the house; the window on the left is one of our living room windows.
Most old houses in Lüneburg look more like this:
Here are some more pictures from the apartment. I'll post some more later that actually give a better idea of how it looks now:
Me (with Karl) at the dining-room table in the living room. At this point,
it was the only piece of furniture, apart from the bed, that was
in the appartment.
The new red sofa with David and Juliet relaxing
Juliet has claimed her spot
If you haven't figured out yet who really rules this household,
this picture says it all (Juliet claiming her spot in the bedroom)
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