Siesta, oh wonderful siesta...

Hola!
It is truly funny with all of these cultural and lingual misunderstandings. Today we had a meeting with our new landlord and the agency to sign the lease for our new apartment. Yesterday we had decided it was going to be at 9 a.m. Then the lady from the agency called and changed the time. But somehow we misunderstood her or something, ‘cause we understood 8 a.m. and woke up early and went in the rain (yes, today it was raining, for the first time so far) to Plaza Mayor and the office. We were there at 8 sharp and the office was closed and no one was there. We figured maybe we misunderstood and we were supposed to meet at 8.30 or 8 at night. At 8.30 when still no one had arrived we left and went to a wonderful little café for a café con leche and then we just started walking. Of course the woman from the office called us around 9 and asked where we were… Apparently 8 o’clock means 9 o’clock over here… Oh well…

We signed the contract and tomorrow we will most hopefully move in to our new flat, the sweetest little 2 bedroom apartment! We are very excited and longing still for being able to cook our own food (although tonight’s dinner was actually really good – chicken kebab! Yes, I miss Malmö, but that kebab was brilliant!) and being able to wash our clothes and stop living out of a suitcase.

Seeing as we woke up so early this morning, we were fairly tired after lunch and both of us took a nap. I slept like a baby for about 2 hours and finally understood how wonderful it is to have a schedules time during the day for napping! Today it was brilliant. And I mean in general you have an excuse for doing nothing, sleeping or spending time with someone in the middle of the day! This is something I could get used to.

Tonight, after the kebab, we went to our favourite hang out again - the Harlem Café – where we once again were treated very nicely. The owner gave us free drinks and the barman actually spoke English AND knew that Malmö was a city in Sweden! Also another guest at the bar remembered that Malmö FF had played finals in the European Cup in the 70’s! Now we’re for sure going to become regulars there!

Ha luego!
/k