Our New Apartment!

Last week we drove back up to Germany for another round of apartment hunting. And we found a place. It's in Bad Dürkheim which is about 20km west of Ludwigshafen. It's abutted to the west by rolling hills and the Palatinate Forest and it's located on the Weinstrasse and surrounded by vineyards. Plus it's a cute town.

We managed to forget the camera when we when apartment hunting last week but I do have a floor plan and a picture of the view from the big balcony (the apartment has two balconies, this one is bigger than the kitchen) looking south:



Unfortunately the commute from Bad Dürkheim is not ideal for Martin ... 10 minute walk to the train station, which is fine, followed by 40 minutes on an above-ground tram to get to Ludwigshafen, followed by another tram or train ride to get to BASF. So it'll probably be about an hour for him each way to work. So we will continue searching for a more ideal location to live in after we move in late April. But this is a start - at least it's in a much nicer place than Ludwigshafen and there are no smoke stacks in the view!