Katmandu living

the van de Wiel/Schou Hansen family blog


A couple of posts ago I wrote about our accident. I finally got around to taking a picture. You can see the massive dent on the right side.

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What is especially nice in the new house is that it is very light and airy. In the middle of the house there is a “swimming pool” without water, which we will have to use some time on child securing, but as there are windows out the this pool from three out of four sides there is a lot of light coming in. Here is a picture from the corridor with the windows to the pool on the right. It is the furniture of the one of Lieke’s collegues that you can see, though it would be nice if she would leave them! We still have a guest room so you do not have an excuse for not coming down to see us.

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After much discussion, and many nights counting the pros and cons, we have now decided to move to another house. Though we love the house we live in right now, and it is probably a once in a lifetime experience, the kids have not been very happy with all the stairs and it has also been a bit hard on us with all the running up and down. To get from where I am sitting writing this and down to the kitchen it is descent of 15 meters or so, so it is an outing every time you want to go down to get a cup of coffee. We have also found out that though we have a very nice rooftop we do not use it enough and would like a garden where the kids can run around instead. So the last month of so we have been looking at the houses that the people who are leaving over the summer are moving out off, and we have now finally found our dream house. It has a big garden, though 2/3 is right now dessert and all rooms in the house is on one level which will be good for the kids. It is very close to the supermarket where we do most of our shopping and is not too far from Lieke’s office or the school of the kids. The only disadvantage about the house is that we will have to move before we take off for Europe on the 6 July. So, the next few weeks will be all about packing and getting ready for the move. Below you see a picture of the house and some of the garden. If you want to see a bit more detailed picture, just double click on the picture.

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