Where I Am Living

Before I start posting pictures and boring narrative of the area I am in, I thought I would share with you where I am staying. Nothing fancy, but home for the next month.

When I contacted the rental agent about finding a place to stay here for a month, I soon discovered that about the only place I was going to be able to afford for that long would have to be a condo unit. My apologies to condo livers (that sounds like something you would eat on a cracker!), but I have never been fond of condo living. Not so much the concept or the space, but the rules. There are always rules. I really am not one to have people tell me what type of curtains I can put on my windows or what type of patio furniture I can have. I would prefer to follow my own taste, what little there is of it.

So I booked a unit in this building and hoped for the best.* The nice thing about being in this building right now is that it is mostly Canadian owned units. Thus fully 2/3 or more of the building is empty. Very quiet right now.

I could tell from the entrance that it was not going to be anything special. I mean, why do they have to tell me that it is a real hacienda when clearly I can see it isn't.




Can you say same, same? Everybody has the exact same curtains on the windows. Told you.





Our unit is on the end. It's the bottom one in the picture although we are on the second floor. I'm too old to climb anymore than one story loaded down with groceries.




We do have a view of the pool area in front though. Well, what you can see through those pesky palm trees. I do force myself to get in it at least once a day.




Going inside, one enters directly, directly!, into the living room area. Complete with the overly large rustico furniture. It looks like a hotel lobby. It is all I can do to force myself to recline on the sofa and watch satellite TV from the USA at night.





There is a long, sterile hallway that leads to the bedrooms. There are also two full baths that open off this hallway. Bowling anyone?

Opposite the living room is the dining room. We use the too fancy hutch as a pantry for canned goods. And wine. And booze.

Did you notice the flowers? We bought those ourselves. At the Pochutla market last Monday. Our rental agent says we got ripped off and paid the Gringo price. That's three bunches of flowers in the vase that we had to buy ourselves because none are furnished! (actually it's a glass water pitcher. Shhh.) We paid 45 pesos for the flowers. Should have been 15 we were told. Oh well, we have gotten at least 45 pesos worth of pleasure having them around. There are not a lot of fresh, cheap flowers available on the island, so this is a luxury.

The kitchen, though fully equipped, leaves some things to be desired. Take that full size refrigerator. You can't just leave it hang open while you stick your head in to look for a snack. The thing is rigged to close automatically and will hit you every time.

The worst though is that tiny sink. It holds two dirty plates, two cups, two glasses and some silverware, tops. You know what that means? Yes, you have to wash dishes after every meal! That really gets to be a drag.

And the stove across from the sink? It has six burners! Who in their right mind would ever use six burners at the same time? You really only need two. One to boil the pasta and one to warm up the boxed spaghetti sauce. And it has one of those glass tops covering everything. Accident waiting to happen if you ask me.

Now for the rooms everyone has been waiting to see. The bedrooms.

They are ok I guess. They each have a mini split air conditioner in them but we just use the giant airplane propeller ceiling fans. They are so strong, when you lie down you feel like you are going to be blown right off the bed. (not very conducive for romantic stuff, but we are not here for that! Shame on you for even thinking about that stuff!)

So here's the one allocated to me.

And the one allocating to B, since he did such a fine job of navigating us here. Can you see that he does not do as fine a job of making his bed as do I?

That's it. I forgot to post the picture of the patio/balcony itself so you will have to live without that. We are doing fine here and it will do for the next month or so.

Next week I am actually going to show some pics of the Huatulco area itself and beautiful views.

* This article was written totally tongue in cheek. This place is actually very, very nice!