Living the IKEA life

Our place is the corner street level apartment at Apeltunlien 20 in the community of Raadal. We are about 15 km from downtown Bergen. If we don't want to hassle the high parking fees and toll road charges we can take the Bybanen (light rail train) for 25 Kroner - about $5. 

Our front door - nothing flashy but the design is"different" in that the apartment (Leiliheten) is pie shaped and some of the walls lean outward.



 First turn to the left leads to the WC with lovely tile walls and floor. The bonus is...

a washing machine!!! I'm standing in the shower for this shot.

The Bedroom has a very compfy IKEA bed, roomy IKEA closets and room for a drying rack. We don't have a dryer - yet.

Now, doesn't this look like an IKEA display kitchen? We have plenty of space, nice appliances, a fast internet connection and a good market just down the hill. Of course everything is either down the hill or up the hill and always around the corner - there are no straight streets in a city of mountains and hills that was first built in the 1000's. More on that later when I introduce our car and driving.

 It must be about 10:30 - the sun is down but it is still twilight. Our dining room juts out off the back of the house. Not a great view but we look up at a mountain covered with evergreens.

The living room side of the big room - two couches and there is a blow up bed so we can accomodate visitors in some comfort.

Back across the room toward the hallway.

Outside on our deck/patio - notice the angle of the wall. We have started off our stay here in a very unusual way - sunny days. We have had four days in a row with no rain in fact not even a cloud. That will change.

We also have a parking garage under the building with an inside entrance plus a storage locker down two flights. The Place is very compfy and we love it.