While we were still in Yemen I published a photo of our house as it looked like in Google Earth. This time I will just publish a link where you will be able to see our house and the neighborhood around us. If you click on the link below you will get to a satelite picture where our house is under the small cross in the absolute middle of the page. From there you can surfe around the city
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=27.6868295&lon=85.3106993&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2
With the temperature falling into the lower single digits and seldom getting up over 17c, we got our gartner Santa (and no - his last name is not clause) to go and buy 500 kilos of firewood - Our driveway is rather steep and so is the road leading to our house so getting half a ton of wood all the way up here was quite an adventure but they managed and we can now enjoy ourselves infront of a nice fire in our fire place - we had our last fireplace in Mexico and there we were not allowed to burn real wood (we used to burn brickets instead) so it is a nice addition to have a real functioning fireplace again.
It seems like we are getting a new schedule every second day these days with new timings for load shedding - Friday we got a new schedule with 16 hours of planned power-cuts so if the cutbacks continue with the current rate we should have no electricity at all in a month or two. With the lack of electricity we are also getting all kind of other problems - without electricity water can't be pumped up, so now there is only 110 million liters a day to fulfill the demand of 230 million liters that are used in the Kathmandu vally.
After we have moved in and started to get a bit more settled, some of you have been asking for photos of our house. It hasn’t seem to satisfy people that I repeatedly publish photos of our living room – I have of course been doing this as this was the only room in the house that was organized enough to show to other people. However, as it will probably take some time before we are fully organized I have given in and photographed the whole house. On this blog you will only see our kitchen and Liva’s room with her increadible cool bed (locally produced from a drawing I made on the back of napkin). To see the full tour of the house you will have to go to our Flickr page by clicking here.
We have now lived outside
We have now finally moved to our house. In what seemed like a real Christmas story the container arrived on the 24th of December. As we are living on a rather big hill and traffic with bigger trucks are not allowed during daytime in
The moving people were really efficient and by lunch time all 230 boxes and pieces of furniture had been moved to the house and the majority of the moving people went home leaving us and the two remaining people with the unpacking. However, we still managed to make the living room ready for the Christmas celebration at night through the food was not quite up to standard with Fried Rice instead of the usual elaborate dinner. Below is a picture as the living room looked on Christmas eve.