Furnished Apartment

Now that we are finally getting settled in here, I've put up a few photos of our cosy apartment.
We have filled most of the rooms, and the last things that we'll buy, is a large table for the spare room, so when we entertain guests we have somewhere to eat.

The hallway, main door just behind you.



The spare room, with the second small sofa bed.

This is where the big tabel will go.

Other side of the spare room, it's our buffet. Look mum, we have a buffet.Sunny bedroom.
This is the right side of the kitchen. I dream of home when I'm cooking.
Left side of the kitchen. Sorry about the mess
The back wall in the lounge room. Elo's tenture from New Zealand covers up the horrible paint job. Our library and TV, that's the view from the couch.
There's the windows that face out into the street, round about and Tram Line 3.

HOME SWEAT HOME!

The Giant Elephant

We visited a project on the island of Nantes a few months ago now, so finally, here are some photos. The project has been part of making the island a more interesting place to live, now that the dock yards that used to dominate the area have closed down. The main attraction is a massive Elephant. It's about 12 metres high, 8 metres high and weighs 40 tons. It moves very slowly, and while it moves as if it's walking, it actually rolls along on a set of huge wheels. The trunk sways around and can blow water and make a trumpet sound very life like.
We went for a slow ride on the elephant, it can carry passengers on it's back and in it's stomach.
It's really quite a site. The greatest part is, it's free to see, it walks around part of the city, next to a park and near the road. It's like Jumanji all over again.

The new Appartment

So Elo and I now live in our own appartment. It's to the south of the city centre but only about 15 minutes away by tram. We moved in officially on the 21st March, but we still have a few things to unpack and purchase to really make it feel homely. Since our life together started on a farm in Canada, then traversed the country, made it's way to Australia, north, south, east and west, and has now landed in France, we really didn't have too many things in which we could actually furnish an appartment with. So, we've spent a lot on getting a fridge, TV, Bed, Couch, Desk, Table, Chairs, Oven, Micro, Jug, Toaster, Iron, Wardrobe, Etc. Although we now have all these things, you'll have to be patient for some photographic evidence, as we still don't have internet access at our place. This is another reason why I may have recently ignored some emails, Sorry. So here are a few photos of the empty place.

Dark Hallway, photo from the front door.
The bathroom, shower on the right, sink on the left.
This is the dining room, although we have no table and chairs for it.
Kitchen, basic.
Right of the Kitchen.
Our bedroom.

The wonderfully luminous lounge room. I love this place, there is lots of windows so it's a very sunny place. I love it. The bad thing is, the people before us though they were like "artist" and they painted the walls. But every wall is in different colour and painted different way. It's not very pretty like this orange stuff.

TV corner in the Lounge room.

Our windows face south to catch the winter sun, very nice.

This is the room where we put everything when we moved. What a mess!!!!!!!!!

Old Life in Couëron by Elody

Hi everyone, i don't really feel confortable writting in English because it's getting very bad for me!!!!! I don't speak, listen and read enough in English, so I'm sorry if you can't understand what i'm saying....

So this is some photo to show our old life in Couëron, with my parents.

Our messy room. With our bright red doona.

The messy computer room. Study computer on the left, internet computer on the right, and a dead computer in the middle.

My bus stop, it used to take about 45 mins to get to work.

The back garden.

Front yard