Finally - a home

Let me share some good news with you; I have finally found a place of my own here in Phnom Penh! After two months of going around with estate agents to look at one place after the other, I´ve signed a contract for a quite small but nice 2 bedroom flat on street 115. It´s not the kind of a traditional wooden house that I´ve been looking for - but after looking at one wooden house after the other that needed major renovations, and also after endless discussions with private landlords over all means of things and details, I´d almost lost hope about finding a place that I´d really like and that would also be a good practical solution. But a couple of weeks ago, I was shown this apartement by one of the estate dealers. It turned out to be a very light, nice and by Cambodian standards modern flat, with a small balcony. Not in the same area as I have looked at before, but still a convenient location; close to food malls and restaurants. So, after some consideration, I decided to drop the idea of a wooden house and instead settle for this more practical solution. And I´m really happy!! The apartment is really cute, fully furnished, and it has a guest bedroom which means that I can welcome friends and family to stay. And although it is pretty small, it´s at the same time very well planned when it comes to both light and storage facilities which otherwise is really difficult to find here in Phnom Penh. And I can set up an internet connection in the apartement, too. So I´m really, really looking forward to moving in. I´ll have access to the apartement from the 15:th of July, but I´ll stay in my friends house until the 22:nd of July when my they´ll be back from their holidays. This as I don´t want Skruttis to be on her own, and I don´t want to move her to a new place for only a week as that probably will cause her stress.

So - I guess that I´d better start planning for some serious shopping now. Because here in Cambodia, the concept "fully furnished" doesn´t really cover anything except just the furniture. Kitchen ware, bathroom equipment and a lot of other things are always provided by the tenant. So Russian Market, Central Market, Lucky Supermarket - here I come..!