Where we live

Here's some pictures of the house where we live, taken when I was first scoping for places to rent. Our apartment is in a small, cosy block of 8 apartments, on the second (top) floor, in a cute little village called Cherry Hinton. It's debateable whether Cherry Hinton is actually a village or really just a suburb of Cambridge, since they pretty much meld into each other. In any case, Cambridge central is 5 mins drive away, or 10 mins on the buses that run every 10 mins to there (double/triple the travel times during peak hour). All in all, it's pretty tasteful.
This is from the front door. The guy in the hall is the real estate agent.
Straight down the hall is the lounge room, replete with bush/park out the main window and gas fireplace on the right.
OK, standing in the lounge looking back the other way into the kitchen. The hall is off to the right.
Mmm... gas stovetop. And look at all that benchspace, w00t!
The kitchen even has a nice view too. Note the standard washing machine placement below the sink. The UK hasn't yet caught onto the concept of laundries and dishwashers...
Even a decent fridge (by UK standards). The landlord was nice enough to leave post-it notes on pretty much every appliance & fixture, as well as a bunch of flowers on move-in day. You just don't get that kind of touch from Sydney real estate agents/landlords...
Ah, the shitter. For some reason, brits seem to like having it so that one has to manually hold the toilet seat up. Bizarre.
The bathroom. Decent shower with a temperature control that even works.
Main bedroom. Looks small, but it's really quite huge -- big enough for a double bed across-ways in this photo, and a huge big wardrobe out of view to the left.
Second bedroom, AKA the office. A little smaller than the main bedroom, but still really quite large for the UK. Can easily fit another double bed in here too, with space to spare.
Storage room, to immediate right when you come in the front door. That's the central heating to the upper right.
Same view as above, but looking down into the garden of the flat below us.
This is the view out of the loungeroom. This area used to be an old lime quarry, but is now just a chunk of unspoilt bush. We see quite a few birds and squirrels in the trees on pretty much a daily basis (and local cats trying to eliminate same).
View from outside, towards the town. The town centre is about 500m away, down the street and off to the left a bit.
In the opposite direction, we have our parking spot, and beyond that, a field of some agricultural crop I don't recognise. I guess having crops growing right outside our house puts us at the edge of the village, which is true, though in this case the village is long and thin, rather than roughly circular, like most towns. So even though we border a farm, we're still only 500m or so from the heart of the village.