Sunday, June 26, 2011

one week at harcourt terrace

welcome to our humble abode in london for one week. haha...it is not really humble of course because it is in kensington/chelsea area. everyone was wondering whether the property agent would turn up at all after being MIA in answering our mails. hate it.

the property was good but not the person i dealt with. so in the end, he arrived 30 mins late and did not give us the login or password for the internet. internet is included in the package but damn him! so that was why i was MIA from the cyber world for one week.

see our bags outside??? that is number 63 and ours was 63a, the basement actually. but still as comfortable. just go down the stairs behind the rail and there we were.

the laundry room. the washing machine is of course very handy but we had a hard time figuring out how to use it. which button to push, why didn't it change when we pushed the button, how long would it take to rinse and wash, etc. so in the end, someone sat in front of the washing machine and washed the whole process before running through the instructions with the others. i only used it once to wash all jeans wear, then i chose to hand wash the rest as it was much faster.

the clean bathroom.

wall deco leading to the rooms.

the smaller room where i slept in. the bed was kinda small, queen i guess and the matress really soft. so if one was not careful with turning and tossing on bed, one would end up knocking the wall or rolling down to the floor, depending on which side of the bed you slept on.

the kitchen. i only used the microwave, fridge and the oven to heat the pastries i bought.
the rest made good use of the stove to cook instant noodles for their breakfast every morning. so i cooked one packet too.

the outdoor patio area which we hardly used. accessible from both the bedrooms. i hung clothes outside on the second day and it chose to rain. no more drying the clothes outside after that.

the living room.


there, go down the stairs and you reach the front door.

the bigger room. definitely not mine. next time, get really huge suitcases and you can use that as an excuse to get the bigger room. fair?

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