Swiss Time is Up

Greetings blog fans! Yes we are still here and I am taking probably the last spare evening I will have until we move (again!) to bring things up to date and set the scene for the next few weeks.

So our time as Swiss residents is nearly up - all being well we will close the door on our luxury company flat in the posh neighbourhood of Champel next Friday to move into our brand new apartment just over the border in France. We have all the official signing and hopefully the key handover on Wednesday.

We are excited, despite the fact the kitchen will not be installed until mid/end of January (the George Foreman grill will come to the rescue in the meantime!), we have no sofa, no TV, no car however as of today we should have a bed next Saturday. Although the concept of home delivery in France seems to be 'there's a van, take it home yourself. I'm too busy eating my baguette'. So look out on the streets of Ville la Grand next Saturday as I will try and navigate my way through French traffic to the flat in a bright yellow transit van.

We have not arranged a phone line yet so don't expect the blog updates to be any more frequent than they have been in the last few weeks. Hopefully we'll have a package sorted in the New Year - probably one of those with TV and internet thrown in.

We are not rushing into things as we are going to spend our first week in the new place not in the new place, but in Ruy to spend Christmas with Vero's family (and somehow try and get to Ikea). We'll need a rest as in between all this we both have to somehow fit working (including my commute to Lausanne on Monday and Tuesday) and two Christmas parties (one Wednesday and one Thursday) in between all the moving stuff.

So for the time being we wish you all a very happy festive season and we'll hopefully have some news and pictures of the new place in 2008.