Living in five different homes. Part 1

Hello, back to tell you more about our new life in South Africa. The road was still long when we arrived back in the country, after leaving our home in Switzerland. In total we live in five homes, all of them in the Camps Bay area, one of the most visited tourist beaches.

Blue Views

In Blue Views

The first place we stayed was Blue Views. This was the first week in July in which we visited the city to find a new home. Blue Views is located almost in front of the beach. A very safe place because the Camps Bay Police station is right in front and because access to restaurants is only 3 minutes walking. It was very nice to live here for the wonderful view of the sea and especially for the walks on the beach just minutes from the apartment. Another aspect that we really enjoyed was the possibility of buying food for cooking in this department. Just two minutes away we had the Pick and Pay and Woolworths stores.

Camps Bay

During that week, we live sincerely like many tourists who arrive at an apartment in Cape Town. We definitely recommend this place to stay. By living here we were very sure that yes, we did want to live very close to Camps Bay. Why? Definitely for the views. Our dream was to find a home with an ocean view. I will tell you this later.

The President Hotel

With the view of Lyon´s Head

Just after a week, we returned to Switzerland and said goodbye to Blue Views. It was the time when we left our home and took care of moving and other important things in Switzerland. We spent our last night in Basel at our favorite restaurant, which is also a hotel. Au violin That July night, it was one of the hottest nights in Switzerland and of course, there was no air conditioning in the hotel, something very common in Europe.

And we travel again to Cape Town. We were at the end of July and it was still winter in Cape Town. We were living two weeks at The President Hotel. A place located in the Sea Point area, very popular for its shops and restaurants and for its beautiful boardwalk. We were in a room overlooking the sea. The hotel has a nice pool, but we didn't even get the idea of ​​going inside. We were only sunning ourselves a little in their beach chairs. We were very impressed by the national and English tourists because they did enjoy the icy water.

No place for the fridge?

The hotel is very famous for its restaurant. My favorite dish was fish cakes, fish cakes. Delicious. There we had a room type apartment, but without kitchen, only microwave oven and refrigerator. By the way, from this last device I can tell you that they left it in the middle of the kitchen. It was our first impression about Africa. The table in place, the shelves in place, the plates in place, each piece of furniture in place, but the refrigerator, no, was in the middle of the room.

Sunset at The President

This did not discourage us and we really enjoyed those two weeks at Sea Point. Especially because we visit many restaurants. But time was pressing and we would soon visit our third place to live. Another apartment in Camps Bay. Meanwhile, we really enjoyed the walks on the beach and we even walked to the Waterfront.

Sea Eagle: getting to know the winter side of the city

And we arrived at the new apartment located on Woodford Street. Until now we had been very comfortable regardless of whether it was raining or cold. The new apartment was one of three in a house known as Sea Eagle. This was a recommendation from our Relocation agent. On the internet it looked great. Well, we arrived and our new abode was in the pool area. It had no main entrance, it was entered through the garden door that connected to the pool.

Nice view in this swimming pool apartment

First we had to wait two hours to take care of the departments, Lucas. We are very desperate for his delay. Then we begin to realize the negative things about this place. The pool was the most beautiful in this apartment. We were not happy to enter through the pool door and also could not close from the inside. We had to close it outside and enter one of the bedrooms that were next to the pool.

We suffer a lot from the cold. Apparently, not all houses are well insulated and this place was an example of that. If we watched television, we covered it with a quilt. In the bathroom we froze when bathing. We had to buy a Dyson heating. Even extra bedspreads we had to buy to not freeze at night. The house had an electric heating that of course we do not hesitate to use. But it only heated a room.

We celebrate in this place my husband 50th birthday

The apartment was not bad, but our biggest problem was security. We were almost in a basement unlike the other departments of the house. In the garden, anyone could cross the fence without any obstacle .. There was no electric wire and barbed wire, it was totally scrapped. On top of that, the windows could be opened or forced easily. One night, our youngest daughter told us that she had seen a man in the garden. It turns out he was in charge of surveillance, but we got scared. The oven on the stove did not work and you even had to go to the supermarket to buy electricity.

We needed to buy electricity

Enough. After three weeks, my husband dedicated himself to finding a new home before our furniture arrived at the new house. So we said goodbye to the Woodford Street apartment number 4, Sea Eagle.

Bye, bye Sea Eagle appartment

In the next post I will tell you about our last two homes that had better security. For now, I wish you a good week. Thanks for reading!