House-Hunters

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Our daughter (A) and family (W and I) have been living in temporary housing provided by W’s work, the Max Planck Institute and it ends this month. Surprisingly, for a university town, housing options seem to be limited.People, in general, live in their rented apartments for decades.Like HGTV House Hunters, our daughter’s family considered; three housing opportunities.  However, unlike an episode of House Hunters, the decision was made before the opening credits finished, preventing the mid-episode discussion over coffee at a cute cafe/beer at the hip pub. Of the three options; one was already rented, one didn’t allow dogs, and so it left them with one choice
So we have made the rounds of the German equivalents to Home Depot (Hornbach’s), Lowe’s (Bauhaus), Walmart (Real) and Kmart (TeDox).Nothing extremely inspiring with the exception of wall of toilet seats;

plus the cheesecake and the best milchcaffee yet at the exceptional Hornbach’s cafe and bakery 

Ultimately, they probably will just go buy everything at the local Ikea (an actual Ikea) in neighboring Saarlouis.

 
This week’s photo of topless old man looking out window contemplating his life.

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  1. HA! Amazing toilet seat art. All that space is wonderful for chasing after Ione during the winter months, but the sans kitchen thing is totally strange and I wonder about the history of that custom.

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