All packed.. apart from some little 'last minute' stacks.
This afternoon I had saying goodbye lunch in the Inverkip hotel with Johns mum which was lovely, but I hasten to say, not as lovely as having lunch in de Brasserij in Capelle :-) which I will do next week.
Tomorrow we will drive to the boat and I will embark on my new life which I feel from the first minute will be manic since we want to adhere to our original schedule of:
0800 arrive Europoort Rotterdam Harbour
1000 Inspection of the house
10:45 Go to Post Office to pick up VOIP modem (because Internet is ready!!!)
11:00 Go to Notary to sign for the mortgage and the house
11:45 Meet my mum, brother and son at the house to unload Golfie and measure up to see if furniture/white goods fit. (Oh and brother has bought us a sackbarrow so we are ready to roll)
14:00 Lunch (Fries with Mayonnaise from Bram Ladage)
14:15 Look for and buy Fridge and bring home to rest
16:00 Go to Ikea to buy a desk, bed and nighttables, mattress and slats
Then it all sort of wavers, no idea when we will actually be finished and crack open the champagne ;)
All my family and friends with which I shared this schedule think it is absolutely hilarious and can't wait to see it all go tits up (in the nicest way possible of course) because they think I have lived so long in a village that I don't know that everything in the city takes about 10 times longer because of the amount of other people milling around.
Well... time will tell.. I will give a full account of our actual timeschedule after the event, just for fun :-)
Apart from that I am trying to ignore all the really painful things of leaving the UK behind and concentrate on how much I am going to miss ITV!! I absolutely LOVE Britain's got talent, hilarious! Luckily it seems to be available for download, which will be very quick with my 20mb internet connection, yay!
It will take some getting used to Dutch telly again, it is from another planet almost.. the same shows as here but drawn out enormously, I am not sure if my patience will be able to take that. Like x-Factor.. one night the performances then the next the results, what are they thinking!
Now.. I *am* taking my Dutch satellite so maybe my brother and I can teach that to look for UK telly for if I get UKsick.
And then, just so you know where I will be, this is the map:
Once I get my brain back (it seems to be a bit checked out at the moment) I will report further :)
3 comments:
Bye bye :(
Have a safe journey and all the best for your return, hope the reverse culture shock does not hit too hard ... but then seeing how you are looking forward to going back I am sure you will be fine!
And hi to the evil0ne, though I will see her this weekend anyway :)
Only 15 minutes for lunch?
Have a safe journey and stuff :) Be good to golfie.
Nice pictures ... but what on earth is the thing beside the bike?
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