It has been one month since we arrived here and in some ways it still feels like we are only on vacation. What a way to live life!! Feeling like you are on vacation all the time!
Of course the first few weeks were filled with shopping. We arrived to an apartment that had a sleeper sofa,..we ordered it sight unseen, a set of linens (purchased last March), a coffee pot,..but no coffee cups and a couple of towels. Since all of our luggage was lost even the stuff we had brought was not here for the first night. Gradually we added the essentials,..a bed, dishes, pans, a TV, printer etc. It is interesting that under communism there was essentially one store, one product and one price. Now there are thousands of specialty stores. In fact I needed some extra pillow cases so I had to go to a store that sold only bed linens. Ken had to go to a paint store for turpentine for painting and to a drug store for de-natured alcohol for cleaning his brushes. I am still looking at a couple of different sewing machine stores to buy a machine. There are a few of the big "Wall-Mart type" of stores and they carry a general line of a lot of items. They do not however have the variety and quantity that we are used to and in many cases they are more expensive than the little neighborhood specialty store. Some things we still have not found,...like steel wool and vanilla. I'm sure they are around but it is sort of a scavenger hunt to figure out where to go to buy them. This photo is of one of the local Baroque churches.
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