Today has been a day of faffing… We woke up quite late and decided to go down town to buy some clothes for our holiday in Croatia. I also had to pick up my new passport and unregister [or register as an emigrant depending on how you view this]. It felt a bit strange to do this also because it’s so definite. I had pictures taken for my new passport and did not really like them but when I saw my passport I was very happy with it.
The ‘new’ design is awesome and I’m happy to get one before I leave. Next time, which will be in another ten years I will receive the digital passport which will be introduced in October this year. Weird new rules apply for having pictures taken and one of them is that you are no longer allowed to smile. A shame really, people will look quite grumpy then, don’t you think? Also if you wear glasses you will have to take them off. I think it’s a bit exaggerated to be honest. Anyway I have mine and it looks great, if I have my scanner set up again I will try to scan it [which is probably illegal but who gives a shit] 
I need to register as an emigrant in order to cancel all my insurances over here. AS. already took care of insurances abroad so we don’t have to worry about it, including health insurance which is great because I wasn’t sure about what type of insurance I had to apply for but this is arranged through the company he’s going to work for. I still have to write a few letters and mail them off asap, that will be the last thing to do, last bit of paperwork over here. I will receive some tax papers once we’ve moved but that won’t be much of a problem. I’ll bring over all the papers that I’ll need anyway.
We went to town to buy some clothes at Esprit. I saw a beautiful dress and AS. wanted to give it to me but I thought it was way to expensive. I’d rather go to this second hand store, they sell stuff that is sometimes brand new and I’ve found some really nice things on several occasions. My gut feeling is telling me to go and see what is there because so far I’ve always succeeded. I could buy about five dresses for the one we saw at Esprit. So on our way back home we drove by the second hand store but unfortunately the owner had to go to the hospital so he was closing earlier. I’ll try again another day.
We ended up being stuck in a traffic jam so we went to DM.’s studio instead which is just around the corner. We had coffee and stayed for a while having a relaxed day for a change…
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DM. came over this morning at 10.00 to pick up one of the workbenches that are in the spare room. I took it apart but left the bottom bit because I wasn’t sure if it could fit in the car. It would only take me another three minutes to take it apart though so it wouldn’t be a problem at all. I discussed the car with DM. because we offered them to buy it from us. It feels better to me if a friend buys the car than having to sell it to a total stranger. A. put some ads online but so far we didn’t get any serious response just a couple of emails and a weird phone call.
I’ve also built a small website with pictures of the car, it’s been visited quite often. We had an appointment this morning but the woman seemed to have canceled all of a sudden. That gave us plenty of time to reorganise this day so to us it was actually convenient. She seemed to be some weirdo anyway so we didn’t really take it serious. I took DM. for a test drive, we went to her studio to show the car to ER. her boyfriend who had a drive himself. They are both happy with it and we are happy with this solution.
We can keep the car until they’ve sold theirs and in the meantime we can still use it to move all our stuff, excellent deal hey?! We went back home and had another coffee. DM. left after half an hour or so. I then called Chantal because I promised her to bring over the espresso machine since we would be in the neighbourhood anyway. We would also have to take some stuff to CH. so on our way there we could drop off the espresso machine. So I called Chantal to tell her that we would be there in half an hour, then I called CH. to tell her that we would be at hers in 45 minutes.
We dropped off the coffee machine, Chantal was waiting for us outside the apartment block. It’s a busy road and there was nowhere to park so it was easier to do it like this. We drove to CH. and gave her all the stuff, mostly garden furniture, some PC speakers, a little bamboo table and two shelves that I took of the wall in the lounge and computer room. We stayed for an hour and had a coffee. CH. was preparing food for the BBQ party that she was going to throw on Sunday.
We went to the supermarket afterwards and bought some groceries for the weekend. Then we went to Decathlon, my favourite sports store to see if they had some flees for me. Unfortunately most of the summer stuff was already sold out but I managed to find some cool Adidas clothes. Light weight and quick drying fabric which is very handy. to take with me on holiday in a couple of weeks. So we had a busy and productive day.
I’ve thrown out so much stuff, put it all outside for the garbage truck to collect. Funny thing was that most of the stuff was gone in a couple of minutes. Francoise took my CD player, some neighbour took my laundry spinner which was perfectly fine and almost brand new, I didn’t use it anymore because my old washing machine died years ago, the one I bought after that had a built-in spinner. I cleaned out the garden and most of the kitchen. One big job needs to be done and that is sorting out my clothes…
I will save that for last because it will take me a while and I will have to pass that on to friends as well, so better wait with it… It’s not really necessary but I’d rather do it now then after the move… I’m happy to see that other people are happy with my stuff, whether they are friends or neighbours or total strangers, it feels good like that.