This is my little series on the big move back to Australia. Perhaps I will look back in the future and laugh... or cry!
Part 1: Finding a Moving Company
Past 2: A Slight Travel Panic
Part 3: Comparing Crypto Tax Accounting platforms (Cointracking vs Rotki)
Part 4: A Week in Involuntary Stasis
Part 5: The Last Harvest
Part 6: Letting Go...
Part 7: Putting the name out there!
Part 8: Prohibited Materials:
Part 9: Liquidity Freeze!
Part 10: NOOOOO, Steam Deck Delay!
Part 11: A Father's Guilt
Part 12: Middle of the Night Interviews
Part 13: Poopyitdy Poopydity Poop Poop.... Corona Variant Omicron!
Part 14: Things I will MISS about Netherlands
Part 15: Things I WON'T MISS about Netherlands
Part 16: Last Concerts in Europe
Part 17: The Pre-Packing
So... the weekend of relentless pre-packing has come to an end. The house is weirdly in a mostly empty boxed state, ready for the removalists tomorrow to come in and pack everything better than we ever could! I'm hoping that they can (well, they are the experts) as I'm a little bit doubtful that we are going to manage to fit everything into a 24 cubic metre space... however, that was the quote that was given to us... and to be quite perfectly honest... I wouldn't really know what that actually looks like! So, I have to trust the people that know what they are doing... and I suspect that they will be be able to pack things in a way that we would never have imagined!
It has been quite a bit of an emotional day for my wife and I. Yesterday, it was announced that the the Netherlands would go into a harder lock down. Which means that it will be more difficult to say goodbye to the people that we want to. Plus, it doesn't help that our youngest daughter has gotten a bit of a flu, not corona thankfully, but it does mean that she shouldn't be going near other people or they would be inconvenienced. Which also makes it hard for us to meet other people as well!
Sadly, our oldest daughter's afscheid was dropped... it was supposed to be tomorrow on the last day of school, but with the new announcements, the extra day was dropped, and she will have no formal farewell to the class. I feared it was going to happen like this, and with the press conference last night, it was just a matter of time when the school was going to drop the extra day. Still, when the news came... I cried, it wasn't supposed to finish like this for her. We did our best to make it as good as possible... At least both girls managed to do their Kerst-diner with their friends and classmates, and I made sure to have all the girls and their friends take photos before the last week... I didn't want to leave that to the last minute and risk missing out. So, things could have been much worse... and my oldest girl is taking it like a trooper. She sees the positive things that she managed to do with her friends.
With all the trips to the bins... I get to speak a lot with the neighbours as well. I get quite emotional as well... they are all nice people, and they are sad to see us leave (I hope!). I will miss the area and surrounding people, I hope that our next place manages to have a nice community as well. A couple of them gave us a hand with packing the fortepiano... a right pain in the arse, and heavy as well!
The bedrooms are now pretty spartan... we just have the floor to sleep on. In the morning, we will take the mattresses out for collection.
Unfortunately, in the morning I fly out to Spain for a single night to do my last concert in Europe. That means that my wife is alone handling the removal co-ordination. I have no doubt that she will be more than up to the job, and if there is a silver lining to the school being cancelled it is that she doesn't need to run in and out to deliver the kids at the same time that she needs to be direct the moving.
So... everything is ready to go. It is a weird feeling, and it really starts to put a concrete touch on the idea of moving. 15 years in Netherlands, and we still like it here.... but it is now time to return back to our extended families. I will celebrate with the last of a Drambuie... out of a plastic cup. I'm all style...
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