Moving out...

Claudia:

The relocation company did a great job today! All our belongings are already on their way to Munich (at least we hope)… We are happy to get rid of many many things, but we cannot imagine how these hundreds of boxes should fit in our small apartment in Munich? After the relocation guys finally left after a hard day of packing, we decided to see some friends to say good bye, and at this occasion I found out that they took ALL my shoes!! I was standing there, literally in the rain (it really was raining today) with my "complimentary Hilton flipflops", trying to imagine how to climb with them all the mountains in our agenda… but in the end we were lucky to reach them and they were very friendly to unpack again… thanks God…

Now we are sitting in our almost empty flat, happy that another step is finished and a little sad in the same time, because we know that never in our lives we will stay again in a flat which is so beautiful, located directly at the beach, with a view that took our breath away every day during the last 1½ years.

But as Thomas said: now we change a big flat with no garden to a very small “flat” with the biggest and most beautiful garden one can imagine…

… and it’s the right time to leave anyhow. We just learned today that the rent for this flat will increase incredibly – 5.500 Euro per month! Comparing to this, it’s a real bargain what we paid. Despite the financial crisis, prices are exploding in Dubai, and we would have to leave anyhow, since this is not even close to our budget :-)

So now we are looking forward to spending our last nights in a REAL flat, in a REAL bed, with a REAL shower, however, eating already from plastic plates and wearing our old and worn out clothes we will wear for the next months…

But as always – after the packing is before the packing… so the next days we will spend with packing the car…