House hunting

House hunting was our priority on arrival. We knew that we had just 2 weeks in the hotel, in which time we had to find something.

Before arriving we had been warned that it may be difficult to find something in the time, but we had spent a lot of time fact-finding before arriving. So, we knew which village we would be moving into and had made appointments to visit houses as soon as we arrived.

Actually it was Ian who did all the legwork over the first 2 days, seeing 12 houses. He also found estate agents in the same street and went to other places too.

Estate agents here are the same as the world over. We specified a max of $22k and min of 1400s.f. We are a family and needed suitable housing. Ian was shown flats over the price limit, under the size limit and one property with 3 bedrooms, which was actually 2 adjoining flats where you had to hope over the balcony if you wanted to check on the kids.
(Actually that has its advantages thinking about it).

I had been warned about the sizes of places, we were coming out of 2400s.f. and were looking at 1400s.f flats / duplexes. Ian had a bit of a shock though as many of the flats wouldn't have fitted our king size bed.

He short-listed 2 properties that he liked in the end.

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