Buenos Aires – Time for an update on the apartment process. I’ve found one! I admit to not having looked at a huge number of them because I really loved the first one I saw. That’s often the way these things work. It’s here in the same (Barrio Norte) neighborhood, only a couple of blocks from where I’ve been for the last few months. It’s a duplex one bedroom – four rooms in total, with 1½ baths, a small patio outside the kitchen (laundry, herb growing), and a large patio and backyard off the living room! A garden! I’ve never had my very own garden, and I’m thrilled! Brand new kitchen (includes stove/oven, but have to get my own refrigerator), new plumbing, new electric. Very sort of modern design blended with older architecture, like the high cloister-ish walls around the garden.
Meeting with the escribano (sort of the equivalent of a notary public, but they do a whole lot more here) for the first time later today.
[…] Buenos Aires – I recently “celebrated” the one year anniversary of this blog, and given that I launched into it as I began my adventures outside of New York, it’s no surprise that another birthday pops up. My arrival in Buenos Aires to, potentially at that point, live, was July 2, 2005, a grey, drizzly day punctuated only by the food experience of my first provoletta, and a mediocre one at that. Wow! A year here already, amazing how time flies, it sometimes feels like I’ve barely arrived, and other times like I’ve been here for quite a long time. I’ve learned a new language, explored a new culture (with much left on both counts to accomplish), I’ve been in a happy, live-in relationship for the entire time, I bought an apartment in a “foreign” country, I’ve opened a business there as well, experienced a cyclone, been threatened by border guards in Bolivia… Not things I would have predicted a mere twelve months ago. […]