Chapter 2 Moving in
Friday, October 29, 2010 @ 8:30 PM
Arriving around 11am at our new home there was no time to take a rest due to it being Easter at the weekend we had to have the van we had hired one way back by Thursday instead of Friday.
Our house is accessible down a rather churned up track so we had park the van at the top, empty out our car and then over the next day and half make numerous trips with the car collecting our bits and pieces from the van. Sounds simple but when you have a property with no flat areas outside and a large overgrown ‘garden’ not to mention that to get from the car to the front door you had to go right round the house up and down slopes of concrete, grass and a few obstacles. As you can imagine by Wed evening we were exhausted and many pounds lighter, not the ideal way to lose weight but effective. I had also fallen while carrying a large box so was sporting a very uncomfortable sore elbow. While we were doing all this fetching and carrying we had the presence of mind to wear back supports. They were worth their weight in gold. With us both having been working in ‘sit down’ jobs neither of us was very fit.
On Thursday we headed off in convoy again to return the Van to the office in Torre del Mar.A much better trip with the van being empty. It was a relief to return it.