Well what have I been up to since my last blog, well let me tell you, I have been badgering a very busy man into doing his exercises, sometimes without success I have to say, we have had a few nights at the Dan Accadia, Herzliya and we have been house hunting with Ido our lovely real estate manny. We have been back in Israel a total of 20 days and it feels like we haven't had a holiday at all.
And yes we are on the move again, we haven't even been in our apartment in Haifa 6 months and we are having to leave it, we told Itzhak and Nelly Monday evening that we are moving and I think Nelly was as disappointed as I was, we had such a giggle with them Monday that I will really miss them, I would definitely recommend them as landlords.
So today we have been given the green light for the house we want, it was a bit touch and go for a while, but today it all came together, we are currently waiting for Ido to call us, can you believe he has been so selfish as to take himself off voluntarily into the army for a month, really I ask you................
The house is on a complex which has an outdoor pool and the houses all back onto the pool area, well except ours and next door as we have a little culdesac which means no one walks past our back door, wooohooo privacy haha.
There are a few expats on the complex which may or may not be interesting for us, some live there, some including our right hand neighbour come over from the UK three or four times a year, our left hand neighbour is Israeli and apparently (as the right hand neighbour Jeremy informed me) uses the house around 42 weeks a year. I had a good old chin wag with Jeremy when I went around for a second visit, it was after initially seeing the house with My Beloved and Ido, I decided over lunch to go back and get another look, when we had first been taken aound we had gone in back entrance through the garden and pool area, this gave us a very odd feel for the place, so I decided to investigate the area myself and find the front door, that was when I met Jeremy and his lovely wife, he gave me the low down on the place and the people, and took me around the front of the house.
The house itself is on three levels, the ground level being the living room, dining room and kitchen, with a boom room!! this is what they call the bomb shelter in Herzliya, they may well call it that in Haifa too, but I have never heard it called that and it did make me smile. Anway the house, so the house has just undergone a fantastic renovation so everything is brand spanking new, including the three ovens! why would you need three ovens I asked on our third visit, and I was told for entertaining, I am hoping that is not obligatory.....
First floor has a master bedroom with ensuite, and then a further bathroom and two large bedrooms, on the next level is a another bathroom and another bedroom. All the bathrooms are new and sparkly, as are the beds and all the furniture, the house has never been lived in since it was renovated and the furniture is beautiful. The dining room table is massive and seats around 10 people, more if everyone budges up. So now we are waiting to find out our moving date, we will be leaving all our beautiful furniture that we lovingly purchased for our apartment in Haifa for the two guys who have taken over My Beloved's position, and they better look after it, because I will hunt them down...
My Beloved is doing great after his operation and has leapt back to work. although being office based is making him lazy shhhhh don't tell him I said that. As he is working now in Herzliya the days are again very long, mainly due to the fact that he has to be at the morning meeting for 7.30am and if you leave any later than 6am as I have mentioned before it will take you nearly two hours to get there, and getting home can be equally as difficult, we have been informed that we now have to stay in Herzliya through the week to avoid unnecessary traveling, this is until we move into our house, I can't see that being a hardship as long as we stay in the Dan Accadia and not the roach infested staff house they have on the Marina, thats a whole other story, and one that still makes my skin creep.
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