Our worldy goods....
The truck arrives and Stephen takes charge.... Moving in day today! We checked out of the hotel (after humpfing 4 giant cases and 2 laptops out to the car ourselves cos the bellhop was busy!) and got down to the house in time to sweep the floor before the rental furniture arrived. Almost simultaneously our air freight arrived – delivered by two exceedingly strong ladies! These women where hefting huge boxes of clothes up our 4 flights of stairs as if they weighed nothing!! “Real” Women!!
In between deliveries we popped out to a local deli supermarket called Balducci’s to get a sandwich. I LOVE this shop – it sells Lurpak! And proper cheese!! (not plastic cheese, or squirty cheese in a can…yes, really…in a can, and it squirts…), and things like Garam Masala and Naan bread! Yippee!! I can make Indian food!!!! We were worried that our time here was going to be curry-free, but we’re sorted!!
Our third delivery of the day (our surface shipment) was scheduled for 2pm. The really nice woman from the shipping company called at 1:55 to “check that the team are with you”….erm, no!! “Oh! Give them ½ hour – they’ll definitely be there by 2:30 – must be traffic”. I phoned her back when it got to 3pm, and she went off to chase. She called me back – they were on their way – with me any minute…When she called at 4:30 to ask if the team were with me I almost didn’t have the heart to tell her that there was still no sign!! Thankfully they turned up when she was on the phone! But then she called back seconds later to say that although they were delivering the stuff, there were wooden crates on board that the crew weren’t equipped to open….and as it was July 4th the next day it would be Thursday before they could send a separate company to open the crates…..arrgghhh! Remember I was in bed with lurgy when things were sent, so I had no idea if there were crates or not! As it turned out, there were not, so heaven knows what she was talking about!!
These are big, strong guys! One of them lifted our armchair off the back of the container on his own!! He must have had his Weetabix for breakfast!! As fast as the guys were bringing the boxes in I was trying to unpack them. Which worked well for the clothes boxes, not so well for the majority of the boxes which had glassware etc in them. Each glass was encased in about 4 individually wrapped layers of paper! It was like playing pass the parcel on your own! It slowed down unpacking a great deal, and I quickly filled the bottom floor of our house with paper! Thankfully, the guys were taking away the empty boxes and wrapping, so I wasn’t lost forever in a sea of paper!! (I hope they recycle…!)
After the team left we carried on with the unwrapping and putting away until hunger and exhaustion took over. We staggered off for a pizza in our local trattatoria which is about 5 minutes walk away, then staggered back home and fell into bed.
In between deliveries we popped out to a local deli supermarket called Balducci’s to get a sandwich. I LOVE this shop – it sells Lurpak! And proper cheese!! (not plastic cheese, or squirty cheese in a can…yes, really…in a can, and it squirts…), and things like Garam Masala and Naan bread! Yippee!! I can make Indian food!!!! We were worried that our time here was going to be curry-free, but we’re sorted!!
Our third delivery of the day (our surface shipment) was scheduled for 2pm. The really nice woman from the shipping company called at 1:55 to “check that the team are with you”….erm, no!! “Oh! Give them ½ hour – they’ll definitely be there by 2:30 – must be traffic”. I phoned her back when it got to 3pm, and she went off to chase. She called me back – they were on their way – with me any minute…When she called at 4:30 to ask if the team were with me I almost didn’t have the heart to tell her that there was still no sign!! Thankfully they turned up when she was on the phone! But then she called back seconds later to say that although they were delivering the stuff, there were wooden crates on board that the crew weren’t equipped to open….and as it was July 4th the next day it would be Thursday before they could send a separate company to open the crates…..arrgghhh! Remember I was in bed with lurgy when things were sent, so I had no idea if there were crates or not! As it turned out, there were not, so heaven knows what she was talking about!!
These are big, strong guys! One of them lifted our armchair off the back of the container on his own!! He must have had his Weetabix for breakfast!! As fast as the guys were bringing the boxes in I was trying to unpack them. Which worked well for the clothes boxes, not so well for the majority of the boxes which had glassware etc in them. Each glass was encased in about 4 individually wrapped layers of paper! It was like playing pass the parcel on your own! It slowed down unpacking a great deal, and I quickly filled the bottom floor of our house with paper! Thankfully, the guys were taking away the empty boxes and wrapping, so I wasn’t lost forever in a sea of paper!! (I hope they recycle…!)
After the team left we carried on with the unwrapping and putting away until hunger and exhaustion took over. We staggered off for a pizza in our local trattatoria which is about 5 minutes walk away, then staggered back home and fell into bed.
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