Hi again, I have now managed to get some photos of the apartment on, so you can see where we are living. It is still a bit bare at the moment but it is fine for us and I'm sure it will be covered in all our rubbish soon enough so I shouldn't moan.

This is the lounge. (Will is wearing shorts although it might not look like it.) We have added a TV to the picture since this was taken which is good.

The door he is facing is our bedroom, and there is another one next to him to the other bedroom. These are the bedrooms:



Well, one is more a photo of the wardrobe but it was difficult to take a shot in there!















Anyway, the other doors you can see are the
bathroom on the right, again it is hard to take a photo of the room, but really it is a sink in a little room, then a shower room with a very small bath straight on (the whole room is the cubicle) and a toilet off to the right.

The other door on the left of the lounge is to the porch or genkan, a little foyer at the front of every house with shoe storage because everyone must take off their shoes. In some restaurants with tatami mats you still have to do that here, but I haven't seen it happen yet. We have a huge closet in there where we hang the washing to dry.

On the right of where I was standing is the kitchen. There is zero preparation space in there. Actually no surfaces to do anything on. It is very odd. We have got a tiny chopping board which we wedge onto the draining board and any plates we dish up just have to be balanced wherever we can find. The washing machine in the corner can be useful for this but it has a sloping lid. At least one plate has landed in the clothes so far. Otherwise the kitchen is great although I do miss having an oven.

So that is where we live! I will just slot in one more picture which is the lounge from the other direction, with the table and chairs.


See, at least one little bit of anywhere I live is homelike (ie messy) in no time!