My New Place

So, last week I had a flurry of offers for rooms. It came down to two different ones (each with some positives and negatives) and I made my decision. My new roommate is a girl named Regula. She is from Lucerne and is a German literature student and works at a langauge school teaching German as well. By a stroke of luck, I was able to move in last Saturday (March 27). That led to an impromptu trip to IKEA on Friday night to purchase a bed and ended up with Alessandro and myself strapping a mattress on the roof of his small car and driving across Zurich and dropping it off at the new place. Saturday afternoon I moved in with my three bags of belongings and built my bed. The address (for all of those letters...) is:

Sallenbachstrasse 17
CH-8055, Zurich

So without further ado, here are the pictures of my place:

Photo from the street. The flat is on the first floor.

Picture of the front entrance with the mailboxes.

The front door of the flat with the welcome mat (I need to figure out where to get one of the Swiss flag ones!).

The front entrance room of the flat with the kitchen table.

My room (a picture from last week), with the wardrobe that I inherited and my new bed.

The opposite angle of my room.

Back to the entrance area and the hallway leading to the other bedroom and the bathroom.

Two photos of the kitchen. Very nice with lots of light during the day. The dishwasher is also a nice addition.

I've also embedded a Google map below so you can get a sense of where I am in Zurich and Switzerland. There are two markers, the green one is my place and the blue one is where I work.


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