This weekend we did not travel on Saturday, working instead with a grim intensity on our apartment search. I finally have a couple of appointments to look at apartments, so our blitz of calls and emails has yielded some results.
On Sunday we celebrated my 30th birthday. In Dutch you say, “Ik ben jarig”, which translates directly as “I am year-ing”. We celebrated by NOT going out and doing anything stressful. It was a relaxing day, getting me ready for another week of largely incomprehensible menus, signs, newspapers, television shows, bus schedules, and product labels. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an interesting challenge, but sometimes a little tiring.
This week our alternate quest is to get me a bike, which would help a LOT with grocery shopping, recycling bottles, and getting to the train station in Kortrijk so I can take the train to Ghent to look at apartments. New bikes here run a minimum of 200€, not counting a bike lock and a helmet, and you can go up in price as much as you like. We are trying to find a used bike nearby, on 2dehands, which is similar to Craig’s List in the US. I can’t wait to post a picture of my bike when we get it!
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wow, bikes are certainly expensive! I should have let you keep my bike but thought used bikes would be plentiful and cheap there. Good luck! And hartilijk gefeeliciteered met jou verjaardag! (probably spelled some of that wrong....)
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