IT WILL BE A BUSY SUMMER

 



After 2 months in Norway with some short trips to Italy and Moscow it is soon time to head back to our beloved house in Montecarlo.

It is not completely finished with our furniture on the road to the house and arrives in week time, so I just will give a sneak peak of what you can imagine.

Pasqual from Limpresa sent us a picture of the sidewalk where we also could see the nice color of the house with the green shades.

Gianluca from Limpresa posted already some pictures of the doors to our master bedroom on the ground floor to his Facebook page, so he must be very pleased with the job. Our architect Galileo told us he was very very pleased  with our solution for that challenge. We reused a couple of the doors from the bedrooms upstairs and Limpresa managed to treat them excellent so we can see the character and soul of the house in these doors.

We got some bad news the other day from the architect. We get electricity in a day or two, but water and gas will not be connect until later in July. Guess who got frustrated with the Italian late ordering services when you got fixed dates in the plan and plenty of original time. OK just have to cross our fingers that the architect manage to push them nicely so we can have part of our summer vacation with a nice shower and water in the toilets. In addition we have to work on alternative solution within the next two/three weeks.

 

 

 

I did spend the last months in Norway with 7 of the 8 grandchildren. We had fun and enjoyed many events during the period. The last months in Norway also gave me the opportunity to arrange shipment and sent away our furniture and other parts we have had in storage for the last 2-3 years. The company has an agreement with Team Relocation and I can just say that their staff at Forus, Stavanger is efficient. When their office people in Oslo tells me it would take 4-5 hours to fill up the container, the guys at the storage did it in 1,5. Wonder what will be on the bill to the company.

We did not do a truck direct to Italy, we arranged a container load by boat to Rotterdam and then by truck to Montecarlo. Savings is more than 50% so why not. I rather pay 25000 NOK than 65000 NOK. Thanks to Thore at STB who I have known since 1983 from the same business, and he have been in this business all the time so he know how to get the right price for you. We will get you accommodated and find you tickets for the ANDREA BOCELLI CONCERT 2017.

 

 

When I arrive next week in Montecarlo it will be a couple of nights at our regular B&B until I have managed to organize the house and make it livable. The day after my arrival I have to get hold of the VAN for transportation from the offloading point at Casata Davini and to the house. Mario let me do this and it would not take too much time or space at his place. It is a part of the relation building done over 15 years in Lucca area. And we look forward to build even more relations now, people we know but have not met. Even an Italian teacher we have connected with so I am prepared to start picking up on the Italian I started to learn when we lived in Houston. No more Russian lessons for me.

 

Must say it was good today know some of the Russian and could communicate with the driver for the lost suitcase two days after arrival myself. Got it and got the Norwegian chees in the fridge.

So that’s all for now, we will travel to Italy, spend 2 months finish the house interior as best as we can and prepare you for the result and give you an update sometime into August.

It will be great to go and lower our shoulders as almost all are finished and all milestones are history.

Have a great summer all.