Could this be the one?

As I said in my previous post, the agency with the apartment and another house were next on our list. I was due to visit the apartment on a Tuesday morning but never got to see it. The owner, who was having the apartment completely re-decorated, decided to let to one of her friends.

We went to visit the house during the afternoon. It had been built in the 80s and was quite small, there was no garage and it was reached by a small driveway behind a pharmacy. There was no kitchen as such, just a hob and sink a little off the main room. The bedrooms were large with fitted cupboards and the main room had big windows which slid open to go into a little walled courtyard. I rather liked the courtyard and could see it as an extra room during the summer months. Unfortunately the windows looked south and would have turned the main room into a hot house very quickly. Mr. Sosie didn’t like there not being a garage. There was a storage space behind, It was secure, but rather small.

 We decided to go home and think about it.

The house by the road - and a flight path!

We went to see the outside of the house next to the main road before the appointment because we were given the address. Not a wise move by the agency. It was in a sad and sorry state, looked as if it needed new window frames and there was a tiny shed in the garden which would fall down next time the wind blew. Mr Sosie thought that perhaps we should wait to see the inside later in the week before turning it down. Just at that moment a plane flew over. We were right in the flight path to the nearby airport! There was a post office nearby, a bus stop and shops. They would have been very useful.

When we got home, I phoned the agency  to explain that it wasn’t really what we were looking for. I asked about another house near to the first on their list. The lady on the phone was honest, we wouldn’t like it for the same reasons.