The flat featured…
• A steep, broken-up asphalt path to the flat.
• Bar across the alley, loud with echo. Very popular bar with karaoke 11PM to 3AM, followed by shouting, crying, and sometimes bagpipes.
• Restaurant rubbish bins teeming with flies.
• Floorboards that bend with every step; shrieking sounds in the floor when anyone walks in the flat.
• When we arrived, we found that the sheets were not clean (There were BODILY FLUIDS on them), the floor hadn’t been swept, the bathroom and kitchen were filthy.
• Only the living room windows opened at all, about 6 inches, and it was muggy and damp at all times (steam from the kettle, clothes drying, hot showers, etc). No ventilation at all.
• The stove is baffling. No instructions to be found in the flat.
• No comfortable place to sit in the whole flat. The loveseat should have been fine, but it was filthy and it smelled bad, and sagged in the center.
• We couldn’t use the television for streaming. The Firestick had been programmed in German and we couldn’t change it to English. No instructions.
The most horrifying part was noticing, a few days before our departure, that black mold was growing out the kitchen tap. Using a sponge and cleanser, I cleaned far into the tap . Disgusting chunks of black mold came out on the sponge. This explains why I had diarrhea for the last two weeks that we lived in this horrible flat.
We departed two days early.
Whoever owns, cleans, and manages this flat should be ashamed of themselves.
