The move becomes concrete

The last week was very stressful and busy. Our days were dominated by packing boxes. You can´t imagine how many things we collected over the years and had to through away now. We had to drive to the recycling court several times to get rid of all that stuff we don’t need any more. This is even crazier since we gave away so many things to friends and family before…

After recognizing how many bottles of Campari we have, we decided to serve the red Italian alcohol at our farewell-party next week. To offer different variations of Campari we tried various cocktails during the last nights – it was great fun as you can see ;)

On Saturday we brought the bulk of our furniture and the boxes to my parent’s garage – a big THANK YOU to all the hard-working helpers that handled this removal with ease.

After all things had been stored in the garage another task waited for all the helping hands: Wallpaper had to be removed. In a good mood and with energetic help even from the smallest three rooms were cleaned in less than two hours. Wow, fantastic job!

Now we are staying in a nearly empty flat and packing the last boxes. There are only two weeks left till Klaudia will leave Germany for Edinburgh.

See more pictures of our last week here...

It's going on...

Our preparations for moving to Oxford proceed.

On Wednesday Klaudia's parents were kind enough helping us to relieve parts of the wall system in the living room.

Furthermore they painted parts of the bathroom since we had to "rebuild" a blue bordure Klaudia had applied to the walls.
There are a lot of things to do these days. Klaudia is preparing for her last day on work, which will be on Tuesday.
We plan to move most of our furniture from our flat to my parent's garage in two weeks, so everything has to be prepared by then. My plan for this morning is to get some of this chaos structured…

By the way: It's not our dog. Picco belongs to Klaudia's parents :-)