Another view

Now it is a fact. We have not only got another view on the outside world, we have got a new house to live in.
Last week we got packed all the boxes and practically filled the whole living room with all our stuff.Wednesday the 10th at 9 in the morning, 8 guys from a removal company showed up at our old address and that was the end - or culmination - of a long and annoying task that had started on the 25th of June, on the first day of our summer holiday. Yes, that was the day our landlord showed his greed in a meeting we had with him about a renewal of our lease.
He demanded an rent increase of 45 %, and because we wouldn't accept that, the first 2 weeks of the holiday was spent on house hunting.
That was not an easy task, as all lease prizes has gone up rapidly in the last 6 months here in Hong Kong, and I guess that was also the ignition that started the greed to rise in our -former- landlord.
What we saw of houses in those two weeks that was on the market for the budget we were willing to pay, was for sure depressing and I will not even start to describe it. Only can I say that some nights when we finally got home from the hunt, we were absolutely depressed and disillusioned.
We were even ready to move away from the area we have been living in for the last 4 years and which we really like, but a lot of other people like it as well, and that is also a reason for the expensive rent.
Anyway to cut this short. We had an amazing lucky stroke after the first week, and now we have moved into a similar house as the one we had before, with a rooftop and a view -even it is not quite as nice, it is still a view and it is still nice. It is a bit similar to the former one as it is the same bay we are looking at now, just from another angle.
I promise to post a photo of that view soon. First of all I have to take one -photo- and second we have to have our internet and telephone sorted, but that will hopefully all be done by the coming week-end.
What I can do though, is to show a picture of the kitchen, we've kind of managed to put together from various items , found in a range of different shops and on top of that, a picture of my first cocked breakfast in that place.
Did I eventually mention that we got that place for the same amount as we've paid the last four years. That is the best thing that came out of all the stress.