Thursday, January 10, 2008

ARRIVING



We have been in Sri Lanka for 6 days now - after a day in Singapore. We are currently living out of a hotel room - which has its pros and cons. It is a safe base from which to find our feet and it is great not having to do any housework. We are rising to the challenge of operating a family out of one room - different parts of the room have been allocated "kitchen", "study", "play room" etc. At least the kids can escape to the pool when they get stir crazy. We are definitely looking forward to the privacy of having our own place, settling into a routine and (would you believe it) cooking our own meals.

We went house-hunting the other day. This was not as simple as it sounds for although the agent had carefully planned out the trip, about half the house owners were out at their appointment times. Add to that, the infrastructure is poor and streets can look different from day to day, so that even our agent, who has lived here for ten years, can sometimes struggle to locate a property he has listed. We do think, however, that we have found one we like. We will look at a few more today and take it from there.

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