We've found a house!!

Thanks to our friend Anthony, a really cool South African expat living in Hanoi at the moment but who lived in Bangkok before that (if you go to Hanoi and need a bike, go to him, we bought a bike from him and the service is top notch – Vietnam Motorbikes), we found out about this great place behind Suhkhumvit where expats go and live happily ever after.

I must say, for a serviced apartment complex, this one is appealingly warm, cosy and friendly. It just has a good vibe. We saw like, 5 apartment complexes on Saturday and no other flat was as cute as the ones they have here. The building itself is quite small, with wooden furniture and a general colonial feel (I say that in the good esthetical sense of the word colonial), there’s a pool on the roof top, a pond in the garden and a lush vibrant feel to the whole place, mainly due to all the trees and plants and stuff… and the parrots, too.



Also, it’s set in a quiet little Soi only minutes away from Suhkumvit, but it feels like we’re in the jungle here, away from the craziness…

So, we moved in yesterday. I’m so happy in my little flat I’ve started nesting, buying things, decorating… we’ll probably only be here for a month – the idea was to rent a serviced apartment for that length of time, to give us a base, and from there explore the city to eventually find the area we really want to live in, like near our schools for example. But who knows? If we still love it here so much after a month, it might become our real place of residence… though we would probably upgrade the flat to something a bit bigger within the same building, otherwise we might murder each other.