2022-01-14
2022-01-14
The Choice
After a few weeks of negotiation, on that day we signed the rental agreement. I’ll never forget Mister Billi suddenly pushing himself up from the table, clumsily leaping to the top of his chair while singing in very personal English and a smooth wine-flavoured accent, Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs Robinson”. Although it is only the “Hey, hey, hey” that still echoes in my mind, I’d like to think that he was also considering that part of the song:
“We’d like to know a little bit about you for our files We’d like to help you learn to help yourself Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home”
Before signing the rental agreement for Cà de
Monti, I was struggling to find a place in Rotterdam.
Unaffordable prices, month-long waiting
lists and not always welcomely spaces drive me
to consider renting, for almost the same price,
the village. I had to make a choice. The city or
the countryside.
