In The Beginning...
I didn't sleep on the plane.
The first day here was pretty rough. I met Marissa and we were so mutually excited to see one another. We grabbed lunch at a Thai place and she showed me a tunnel of really cool graffiti. This was my favourite (a little planning humour and some warhol):
Marissa's flat is on the second floor of a walk-up apartment building with a courtyard. She has a beautiful full-length window in her room that has a view of the courtyard. She has 4 flatmates, but we don't see much of them. There are 3 other bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms and a large kitchen. There's no social common area so people really stick to themselves... and that's not Marissa's style.
I went home to shower and change while she finished her day of work. I also took a nice nap. When she came home, we explored her neighbourhood a bit. She lives in Maida Vale which is adjacent to Little Venice. The hood is STUNNING. Kate Moss used to live here but she recently moved out. If I had lived here in London, I may have never left!
The rowhouses are narrow and well kept and are set back fairly close to the street. There's a proper high street [where I am writing this post). There's a nice park and of course, there's the canal network lined with house boats, cafes and bars. One house boat was for sale for only £49,000 [roughly $100,000]. I looked in the window and saw a nice kitchen with a dishwasher and washer/drying. It's probably larger than most flats.
We got some groceries and then crashed. I slept about 10 hours. It was lovely.
The first day here was pretty rough. I met Marissa and we were so mutually excited to see one another. We grabbed lunch at a Thai place and she showed me a tunnel of really cool graffiti. This was my favourite (a little planning humour and some warhol):
Marissa's flat is on the second floor of a walk-up apartment building with a courtyard. She has a beautiful full-length window in her room that has a view of the courtyard. She has 4 flatmates, but we don't see much of them. There are 3 other bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms and a large kitchen. There's no social common area so people really stick to themselves... and that's not Marissa's style.
I went home to shower and change while she finished her day of work. I also took a nice nap. When she came home, we explored her neighbourhood a bit. She lives in Maida Vale which is adjacent to Little Venice. The hood is STUNNING. Kate Moss used to live here but she recently moved out. If I had lived here in London, I may have never left!
The rowhouses are narrow and well kept and are set back fairly close to the street. There's a proper high street [where I am writing this post). There's a nice park and of course, there's the canal network lined with house boats, cafes and bars. One house boat was for sale for only £49,000 [roughly $100,000]. I looked in the window and saw a nice kitchen with a dishwasher and washer/drying. It's probably larger than most flats.
We got some groceries and then crashed. I slept about 10 hours. It was lovely.
posted by Douglas J. Stiles, BA Hons, MES! at 6/05/2008 12:43:00 p.m.
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