Our New Home

Our new apartment is on Cornelis Anthoniszstraat.  It's in the Oud Zuid (Old South) and it is a beautiful area of Amsterdam.  It is full of cafes, restaurants and nice bars, and we're only a few minutes walk from amazing Amsterdam features like the Albert Cuypmarkt, the Concertgebouw, the Stadelijk museum and the Vondelpark.  It's also only 2.5km in one direction to my work, and 2.5km in the other direction to the Centre (Dam Square etc.).  It's pretty much the perfect location.

The spaces between the upmarket main streets are criss-crossed with quiet, bicycle-filled laneways that are lined by rows of well maintained early 1900's red brick buildings.  These buildings are typically 4 or 5 levels high and quite narrow, but on the inside much refurbishment has taken place and often multiple adjacent rooms, either horizontally or vertically, have been joined together to make family sized homes.  The space we can call our own for the next while is just a single floor in a single building, but should be plenty for the two of us.

Our place comes fully furnished which reduces the stress of going furniture and appliance shopping, and the greater problem of furniture and appliance selling that we will encounter when the time comes to move home to Australia.  A large storage room on the 4th level has a full set of built-ins for keeping our things as well as the washing machine, and is large enough for it to double as a spare bedroom for when we have guests over.

The only real compromise we've had to make (other than the price) is small bathroom. Put it this way- if you've got long legs, I hope you're happy to use the toilet with the door open, because it's not gonna close while you're sitting in there...