The Weekend!

Well hello.  We finally made it back after a weekend in Freiburg, where we looked at apartments.  We left early on Friday afternoon, around 2pm, to try and beat some of the weekend traffic.  The trip from München to Freiburg is expected to take approximately 4.5 hours by car.  It took us about 6.5 due, not only to traffic and typical road construction, but the weather turned bad.  Once we arrived we ate a cheap spaghetti dinner and then headed off to our friend Andrea's, where we were sleeping the next two nights.

Saturday was a busy day.  We woke up at 7am for breakfast and to get ready and had our first appointment at 9:30am.  Throughout the day, we looked at 6 different apartments, none of which stood out as the best place for us.  We liked several of them, but they all had strengths and weaknesses.  Some were large, others were massive and a couple were on the smaller side.  Some were brand new and others were quite old.  It was fun to see all our options, but also mind-blowing.  We were both quite tired when we finished and were able to head back to Andrea's, which was around 5pm.  

On Sunday we looked at 4 more places.  Again, we had no real winner.  Some were better than others but none of them were crap-shacks.  We again had to get up around 7am to be ready for our first appointment at 9:30am.  Today we finished around 3pm and then headed back to München.  As expected, this time it only took the 4.5 hours.  We were quite exhausted from it all, but still needed to go through all the information to try and pick to right one for us.  At the time of this writing, this is still not clear :)

As many of you reading this know from our talks when Carsten and I were looking for places in München, most apartments here don't come with kitchens.  In addition, the tenant is responsible for light fixtures as well as many added costs that are not typical when looking at apartments in the United States.  This, along with the number of places we saw, added to an overwhelming weekend.  However, we are both secure in knowing we will make the right decision in terms of where to live.  Plus, are next place can't possibly have as many faults as our current place!!!