What a beauty

Wednesday August 22

The kind of aircraft I deal with at work are just business jets, like this beauty here, we sent to Italy today to pick up two passengers.

Sex and the city

Wednesday August 15

Of course I’m planning to buy one of those terribly luxurious apartments being build everywhere around. Swimming pool, gym, parking and all extra’s included. My dreams have always been big and I’d like to keep it that way. I know it’s feasible, but just not right now. My house in Holland is still for sale, but when it’s sold, I’m sure I’ll buy something here.
The rents of apartments are impossibly high. For a 1-bedroom apartment you can easily pay 80.000 Dirham (which equals 16.000 Euro) per year. It’s also common to pay for one year ahead.
So, I’m living the ‘good old Madrilenian style’ again, together with other ‘young’ singles who find it too expensive to rent their own apartment. This time… we are 4 'sex and the city style' girls!!
The Philippines, Canada, New Zealand and Holland are our home countries.
The girls are all very nice and I’m getting to know more people every day.

The big difference is not even the size of my room.., but the house itself. This house first of all is a house, a villa actually, instead of a collection of rooms. We have a nice living room and a nice kitchen, and a garden where we can have barbeques in winter (yes winter, summer is tooooo hot)
The neighborhood is nice as well. There are just villa’s here, nicely build around a very big lake. It takes around an hour to walk around the lake… so I heard.

The neighborhood, with on the background my new, still under contruction, apartment :)

So I moved again

Monday August 13

My feelings about Madrid and the ‘final destination’ issue seems to be solved.
I found a great job during my holiday in Dubai, and was asked to start as soon as possible.
One of the good things about Spain, especially when you are in my situation, is the fact that under Spanish law you only have 2 weeks notice to leave your job. I came back to work the first days of July, resigned immediately, and after a detour through Holland, started my new job in Dubai the 1st of August. I have a new home… and so many new things to write about!