Monday 24 February 2014

Mercy having a service!

We have taken Mercy into the garage today for a full service. Looking forward to getting her back complete with new wheels fitted.
Granny-flat is coming along - all electrics fitted, plasterboarding done, Plasterer starting tomorrow.
Some more junk thrown out of the house - why oh why are we such hoarders?
Phone call from Spain saying a Spanish couple are paying a deposit today - fingers crossed this one goes through.
Poppy is having her Rabies injection this week.
I am 34 days without a cigarette :-)

Monday 10 February 2014

Even more preparations.

We think we have finally sorted out our route - Belgium, Germany - through the Brenner Pass and down through Italy to Bari. This is about 1200 miles and we have allowed ourselves 4 days.
Travel insurance proved to be a challenge - because of our ages, medical history and the length of the stay - 99 days. We trawled through dozens of companies and only one was interested in offering insurance to us but we are sorted now.
We are keeping very busy packing stuff to take with us, getting the house in the UK ready to sell and Phil is helping sort out the Granny flat.
We thought we had a buyer for our apartment in Spain but it fell through as the purchasers could not get a mortgage. So back to the drawing board with that. We are going over to Spain in March to sign a Power of Attorney for when it eventually sells.

Saturday 1 February 2014

More preparations

We have booked the ferries, and sorted out travel and breakdown insurance. We are just trying to decide which route to take - there are so many choices.

Preparations

Well the preparations have started for our adventure. The plan is to spend 3 months in Corfu, after traveling there in our campervan.