People often ask me what its like to live in a Hinterhaus. I tell them its not really like anything else. You just have to try it. For those of you who may never get to live in one, I thought I'd included a picture. This is a picture of our apartment. It's in the middle of a block, surrounded by buildings. To get to the street we have to pass through one of these buildings.As you can see, the architectural style might euphemistically be called minimalist. The first window looks into our bathroom. Thats why the blinds are always down. The second window is for our bedroom, and the last two windows look in to our living room/dinning room/kitchen. Oh, we're on the bottom floor.
And what do we see when we step out of our door in the morning? Well, right now we see some barren trees, a clothes line, lots of windows, and a few balconies. It has a certain charm. There is some talk of cutting down the trees so the Hinterhaus gets more light. When the leaves are on the trees, they do block some of the light. Of course the buildings help with that as well. One virtue of the arrangement, though, is that all our windows face south. Anyway, Dolores is steadfastly against the killing of the trees. Where would her birds eat, if we couldn't put the feeder in the trees?
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