Tuesday 23 December 2008

Lazy chaps, mince pies and hammocks

It's your fault.

Most certainly it is not.

Yes, it is.

Not that you don't like sitting in the cooomfy hammock and relax, do you?


Guys, guys, guys would you stop that please? We are here to tell everyone what happened in the last two weeks, not to argue about who's fault is that we got lazy. So who starts?

Albert.

Why always me?

Guys!

Oookey, I'll do it then. So we were in London and then when they decided to move to Bristol we went there and then flew to Bonn. And she didn't buy us any ice cream at the airport. Content now?


Nah, not really.

Sorry, been reading back where did we stop writing. So on Sunday-Monday (14-15th) we went to Bristol to scout. It was very very tiring but interesting, I've never seen seagulls before.

Especially not in a city centre.

I liked Bristol, it seems a fun, and above all a safe city. And people were nice. And there is even a street called Christmas Stairs!


It isn't too big nor too small, but the buses are...hm what would be the right word for it..?

Terrible? Outrageous? Totally crap?

Nah. John, you have to admit it isn't that bad.

I am not admitting anything.

Yes, they are late sometimes, or too early...

..never in time...

...but they are pretty clean and the drivers were helpful. And there are Starbucks with mince pie!

Ohh mince pie. I miss mince pie.

I don't.

So back to the storytelling: we were staying in a Youth Hostel, with a Christmas tree and loaaads of people. I've never slept in bunk bed before, just wish he picked the top bed, not the boring lower one.


We could have fallen down if we'd slept up there!

We also walked an awful lot in the two days: looking for a room isn't that simple and Bristol's size combined with the unreliable bus times plus weekend timetables made it even harder. We have checked out some rooms.

Nah, let me talk about this Albert, because I'm sure you would try to put a nicer face on the whole roomfinding matter. So we started to go around on Sunday afternoon checking out double rooms wich we found on the net (easyroommates.com is a cool site btw). The first was at the city border, just by the river. One bus goes there every half an hour. The room was terrible.

It wasn't.

It was a bit crowded.

A bit? Basically there was a double bed in it and you could stack 2 persons in and it would have been full. And we would have lived with two chinese girls we could hardly understand what they were saying for christ's sake!

Ok, ok, you are partly right, it wasn't the right room for us.

The next one was nice though.

Yeah, I still think they fucked it up pretty nicely not choosing that. I mean brand new kitchen with a dishwasher! A nice, big, bright room! A fair bathroom! And all around the clock heating and hot water. They made a terrible, terrible mistake!

Naah, she's right John. That room might have been nicer, but it does matter who do you live with. And Gemma seems a nice girl. With such a beautiful name!

So after John's dreamroom we have seen another one, doesn't even worth to mention, and another on next day with a nice landlord. But the winner was the very last one....
.....I still think it's a mistake.....

...just at the border of the city, near to a huge park with a river. The room is ok, not great but ok. The 31 yo landlady is renting one room out of three. She's living in (mistake mistake) and smokes, so smoking is permitted in the conservatory.


He really should stop smoking, I totally disagree with choosing an accomodation to make him smoke easier.

The main reason they decided on the favour of this one is the owner: she and Gemma laughed a lot in that 40 minutes she was there and she said:

"Maybe the other room is greater but you migt live there with jerks. The people you live with are more important."

Well, you have to admit, she is right.

I just hope Gemma won't turn out to be a serial killer. Lina would be devastated, ehehee.

John, is this the christmas spirit?

It's not christmas yet. I can still be nasty for a day. Or two.

So, we'd found a room then got back to London for a couple of days, sent all the translations and documents what were needed to be sent and headed to Bonn to spend Christmas here.

Yeah....with the drunken bear and his stupid stories.

2 comments:

  1. I am happy you found a room, and don't be sad about the ice cream, she will certainly buy some! For all of you I 'd like to wish a Very Merry Christmas and Happy and Lucky New Year!
    lots of hugs,
    pw

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  2. hehe I totally agree with choosing an accomodation to make him smoke easier.:)Something I would do:)
    I am happy you found a room guys.
    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
    hugs:)
    Arwen

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