Moving House

As we're getting ready to make the big move back to America I thought it would be good to remind ourselves that this isn't the first time we've moved since setting foot in Germany. 

In late spring of 2011 we had a realization.

We were going to need another bedroom.

So the apartment search began. In the end we ended up moving from our first apartment at Brockhausstrasse 4 down the street and around the corner to Rödelstrasse 18. It's going to be really nice to move back to the states where I can pronounce my own address.

Our balcony on Brockhausstrasse, a place where many a meal was eaten.

The view from the balcony. Notice the lovely courtyard. We discovered
after the first winter that the grass is quite sensitive to dog urine. When the
snow finally melted away, all the times that the dogs had taken advantage
of the courtyard on a dark, cold evening were obvious. You could have
played connect the dots with yellow circles of dead grass. It regrew.
 

The main bedroom at our second apartment had a door to the back balcony.
Note the view through the window. I love being able to live in the city
and wake up to nothing but green leaves outside my bedroom window.

The view from the back balcony. Despite the buildings to the side, we had
no buildings directly behind us. Just trees.

This is our back courtyard at our Rödelstrasse apartment.
The dogs never went back there. 

This is the right side view off our front balcony. I wrote about this before.
Having a grocery store across the street was great. And although we're on a
busy street, we have extra thick windows that keep the road noise down to almost nothing.