New apartment

So we have moved.

It feels strange. We've stayed in Escondido for quite a while and became a little attached to the place. The place was nice, the only real drawback was a noisy street right outside the window. Everything else was fine, especially compared to the new place in Temecula.

The new apartment is not bad but it has a really dumb floor plan, the most striking features being the kitchen and the bathroom. The "kitchen" is no more than a dark nook where only one person can stay at a time. Hardly any working space for people who like to cook. It does have all the appliances and they are all new. Chinese fine quality that you can depend on.

The kitchen light cannot be controlled from the kitchen. Kudos to the architect for that. 

The dining area is carpeted: truly stupid thing to do as there is no way to keep crumbs completely off the floor. We had it once before but at least other features were good.

The big room is okay, we have a remodeled balcony, which is quite spacious. Today we had our 5 o'clock tea on a balcony right outside. Nice.

The dumbest features of design were reserved for the bathroom: first of all, it's divided into 2 areas and the part with the sink is carpeted: how stupid is that? The tub is the smallest we ever had and the water pressure is low. This shower is not very conducive to dawdling. We liked to dawdle in the shower of our Escondido apartment because it was just perfect: full water pressure, nice feel of the water jet, the temperature stayed stable and did not jump. In a word, everything you can expect from a perfect shower. Every apartment should have a shower like that.


We like to have a window in our bathroom and this time we are half way there. There is a window in the part with a sink. It has stained glass that casts a strange light like in a cathedral. It looks like an electric light from another room but it's natural. Unfortunately this window cannot be opened. Well, at least we have a window.

As a matter of fact it turned out that only this particular building (and one more) have windows in the bathroom and it was a decisive factor in choosing this particular apartment. We inquired about it and it turned out that it was vacant. So now we live in it.

I think that whoever designs these apartments must live in them for a while to see how it actually feels. And the more uncomfortable they are, the longer they should live there. Let the people who actually live in them decide how comfortable they are.

Anyway, we almost unpacked, set our computers and now are ready to explore Temecula. Temecula, here we come!