Saturday January 3, 2015
We settle into our new home.
When we were here in 2007 we met Tom and Maya who are world
travelers and still own this small apartment in Palermo. It is in a different neighborhood then our
last two visits, which is good for a change, and it is closer to school.
The room is a rectangle approximately 17 ft by 31 ft. Within the rectangle is a bathroom whose
outside wall makes the area for the kitchenette. The kitchen counter top has a sink and a two
burner stove top. As you can see from
the picture there is a back splash about 2 ft high with Ikea-type stainless
steel hangers. There are your basic pots
and pans. (One thing I have learned from
traveling is that renters use metal on Teflon pans and so the pan is usually
beat to hell, therefore, we brought our own small Teflon pan from home. We were surprised here though, because of the
two Teflon pans in the cabinet, only one needed to be thrown away.) The rest of the rectangle has furniture dividing
it into eating, living and sleeping.
There is a small cut out for a balcony and we can open that door. This is a fairly new building, which is great
because the plumbing is new, it is not so great because it does not have the
wonderful wooden shutters called
parisons that black out all the light. (I’m glad I travel with a comfortable eye
mask)
You can see from the website the decor is aesthetically pleasing in typical
Maya creative fashion. There are lots of
unexpected surprises in drawers and cabinets, such as electric adapters, a
house cell phone, coffee, tea, sugar, a
blow dryer! Yay! Two liters of beer with cold glasses, cookies, American
mustard, and more.
The bed is
comfortable – bonus – and so are the pillows.
The sofa tends to swallow you up when you sit on it, but for Argentina,
this is a fabulous sofa.
We are across the street from a grocery store and six blocks
from some great restaurants.
The apartment faces the back, not the street, so you cannot
watch the pulse of the city, but it is quieter.
It's good to unpack, settle in, and have a comfortable place to call our own.
If you plan a stay in Palermo, this is a good choice of apartment.
-Helen
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