Today we met our (hopefully) future landlord and visited the flat we fancy. The apartments look as ready as possible, a chair is missing here, a closet there and a fume hood is waiting for installation. Overall, nothing that couldn’t be finished within a day. We most likely can switch to a flat in the first floor, and he even told us about a way to get a resident parking permission. Which would save us at least a 100,- Euros a month.

Everything would be perfect, if there wouldn’t be the issue with the ESB. The landlord is very confident to get them to work soon, and us in within the next weeks. However, time is ticking. We can only stay in Bishopstown for 3 more weeks. The landlord promised us, that if the building doesn’t have electricity till then, he will prepare a flat for us on one of his other properties for the time being.

I don’t want to relocate with all the stuff 2 more times, but at the same time I don’t want to stay in Bishopstown for too much longer either.

At the moment all we can do is to hope that the ESB will start working next weekend.