How's your week been?

Here's what was happening chez moi

Monday: 3 packers

Tuesday: 3 packers

Wednesday: 7 packers

Thursday: 6 packers

Thursday 3.30pm - One BIG truck plus drag leaves Glasgow with our possesions onboard.

Friday - frantic morning completing last minute legalities, attending Number Guy's leaving 'do', meeting up with Lilith, failing to meet up with Elaine due to said legalities, getting to Edinburgh, booking into hotel, having really crappy meal overpriced meal, collapsing into bed, failing to sleep well.

Saturday - really crappy overpriced breakfast, shopping for last-minute things in Princes street, failing to meet one friend, managing to meet another, back to hotel, reasonable tea (sandwiches form M&S!), repacking of suitcases, development of cold virus and UTI (just to make the journey more pleasant...)

Tomorrow's plan - not bothering with crappy overpriced breakfast, getting hotel shuttle service across to airport, meet up with mum & dad, check in, have coffee with parents, say good bye (trying to show British resolve and keep Stiff Upper Lip stiff(!))go through security, get on plane - let out deep breath and try to enjoy flight...

minor hiccup

...the 'house' isn't going to arrive before Number Guy starts work. Sheesh. Now, don't get me wrong - I think it's great that only a week after we arrive most of our life arrives, it's just that we will have a week's 'holiday' with none of our stuff and so much to do that we won't be able to.

I think the only thing we can do is resolve ourselves to do the important things that we can do, and spend the rest of the time being tourists.

residency and tenancy

We are just back from a long weekend in Zürich. We spent the Saturday and Sunday sightseeing, while MOnday saw us finalising the lease.

The Swiss do not use cheque books and our credit cards were not suitable either for some reason. We had to do a lot of organising to get everything sorted since we do not yet have our Swiss bank accounts (imagine, I am going to have a Swiss bank account...!)

Once all of the paperwork was sorted out we had time to stroll around our house and take measurements. Hopefully this will be of some use today when the agent from the removal firm comes to estimate how much packing materials etc we will need. I am determined that we do not take anything that should be thrown out but as I type things are still in a chaotic mix of 'to be kept/to be thrown away'

We took the usual 'scary photos', plus marriage certificate and passport for our indentity cards so we could begin the process of becoming Swiss residents.

We had some spare time on Tuesday so we took the S-Bahn up the Uetliberg. We took a 15 minute walk up to the top and then went back to the restuarant for a Heisse Schoggi - that's Hot Chocolate to me and you. As you can see, I am already picking up bits of German and Swiss German. I'm not looking forward to the reality of trying to make myself understood, but at least I'll provide some amusement for the locals ;0)

Another random travel pic....you've probably seen it before, but I hate having plain old text and no images. If I had more time, I'd save some others to the pc but spare time is in short supply right now

Edit: Well, the agent has been. Any of you know that feeling when you are really embarrassed about how messy your house is, but you are determined
not to apologise to some complete stranger? When you keep repeating 'But it's clean' to yourself over and over....