Here we come!

Here we are finally setup and installed in Jersey City and everything is going just great! We arrived last sunday - we rented a car - our ML staying in Hanover for the summer as on NJ/NY we do not really need any car at all!
We live in the area of NewPort of Jersey city just accross Manhattan. Our building has a concierge, and is part of a group of 3 large towers with their own private entrance, and security services. How safe! When we leave the building, on the left comes the Hudson river (Atlantic ocean let s say) and a little marina with a nice view on Manhattan and a promenade on the sea front along - straight ahead a tiny square and on the right side a super top playground for kidos. 5 minutes walking distance there is the Path - type of underwater tube to reach the center of Manhattan (different that the intra-Manhattan subway). The center of Manhattan is then just 7 minutes away. 10minutes away we do have access also to the taxis-boats for Manhatan - not even 10minutes sail away from the other side. Oh and we can take the little trail to go to different places in Jersey City. Awesome!

The building provides a service of dry cleaning, mail and a nice concierge is there to help and to open regularly the door for the pram! Yes i do have lots of naive questions for him in my pocket...

For the shopping, 10minutes away (still walking) there is a shopping mall on 3 different floors including lots of big names and famous brands / boutiques (Gap, Victoria secret, Macy s , Kholsm JCPennys s, Aldo, Sephora etc etc with of course a food corner). And if you add 5 extra minutes we do have access to a commercial area with lots of big shops like BJs, supermarkets, etc. 15minutes away on the other side we do have other shops like Target, Staples, A&P etc. The funny part is you can even bring back your cart with you pushing it up to the building, leaving it just outside the door and taking a new cart intern at the building to bring your groceries upstairs. For banks and services, restaurants / take-away and even starbucks (the fan will recognise themselves...) everything is there just walking distance - 5min!

Our apartement is a one bedroom about 85m2 i would say - so about the same size than Sachem minus 1 bedroom. We are very lucky as it is well spoted - 3rd floor out of the 32 and on the side of the Hudson river... we do have a magnificient view on Manhattan... day or night the view is really beautiful! aie aie aie!... add a couple of boat and jetskis on the river during the day... rrrrrrrrrrrhhhh! nearly too much to say that no Aure is NOT on holiday but here to work... him This apartement is all white painted which gives lots of light... and we do have large windows on the water side - same view in the main room or bedroom. There is a large bedroom, a reasonable bathroom, an opened kitchen on the main room - and so a very big living room / saloon...

And there are lots of drawers and cupboard to organise easily ourselves - idem for the kitchen!

What to ask more than that? Chloe and Elanais sleep in the same room and we sleep on the comfy futon in the main room . We use a lot the air-conditioning right now - available in the 2 rooms - lucky us it is available as since last saturday it is extremelly hot in here!

Bises a tous!