Suezkade 124, our home for 27 years

This apartment was our home from 1970 to 1997. Officially it is called a double ground floor gentleman's house. On the left is the wooden-walled gentleman's smoking room(we used it as a guest room), the master bedroom, a second bedroom, the kitchen and, at the back, a pantry. On the right, is the living room, the dining room, and the sunroom, which opened into the garden. There was also a smaller bedroom on the right opening on the garden. And, in the end of the 14 meter long marble hallway, was the door to the wine cellar. As a special treat, our landlord, Mr. Jasperse, spent 5 years digging a secret underground tunnel from the sidewalk to the back garden, because he also dug out(by hand!) a hole for a swimming pool. Unfortunately, he struck ground water from the Beek River, and the hole flooded so badly that the pool could not be finished. The floor in the pantry cracked and broke because he didn't support the roof of the tunnel. We loved this apartment, especially the huge old fashioned kitchen which became the central location for many dinners with our friends and family when they visited.