• Archive for April, 2003

    Out of the box

    by  • 25 April, 2003 • General, Trips • 2 Comments

    We finally made it. Everything is unpacked, bar those items that we need to store elsewhere for lack of space. You can’t believe how hard it is to move from a place with 420 square meters of floor space (including various storage areas) to 90 square meters of floor space, not counting the balcony....

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    Time flies

    by  • 9 April, 2003 • General • 1 Comment

    Wednesday already! It has been a week since our furniture was delivered. We’ve cleared a bit over 100 of the 136 boxes that were occupying all the rooms last week. What’s remaining in boxes is mostly powertools and computer/office stuff. There is also three more lounge chairs still packed which we purchased form IKEA...

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    The saga continues

    by  • 5 April, 2003 • General, Travel • 4 Comments

    Yesterday evening we treated ourselves to a little mezé in the local ouzeri. There was supposed to be live music, but the musicians apparently didn’t feel like playing, instead contenting themselves to smoking, drinking and chatting with the guests. There weren’t many patrons anyway, because the narrow road that leads to the ouzeri in...

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    Back to reality

    by  • 3 April, 2003 • General, Travel • 2 Comments

    Okay, 1st of April is over now, we’re once more dealing with the harsh reality of every day. The movers came in with our stuff yesterday. We had exceeded our quota of truck space (we knew that when we loaded our belongings of course) and we had to pay a little extra. Still 50%...

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    Everything goes well…

    by  • 1 April, 2003 • General, Weird • 1 Comment

    …for those who are patient. We got word today that our house in Belgium is bought by an excentric millionair for twice the asking price. At the same time, at my new job (renting cars to the great unwashed) this morning I was approached by a local official and offered the job of IT...

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