We are on the move

We are on the move!

The packers arrive on Tuesday, the movers on Wednesday and Barbara, the lady that keeps us clean and neat, on Thursday.    So we are getting to the final throes—all too soon.    Gary will be doing the necessary pre packing to make sure that we save those items we need for the move and can find the necessary items after we arrive in Zurich.

It’s off to Oslo for Xmas with Scott and family on Thursday, back to Stockholm on Monday night and probably down the road to Zurich on Friday morning or so.  Linda wants to finish the year end closing at Nordic Processor to make sure corporate doesn’t slip too many of those year end adjustments into her P & L.    We still have to plan the route and stops.

We get to sample the wonderful little Inn just down the street from us:  Clos pa Hornet  (house on the corner) at which we have dined frequently.   Scott, Deb, Nadean and John stayed there when they visited last summer, but we’ve not had the opportunity until now.  Where we stay for the last few days of our Swedish stay is still in the planning.

We are guessing on three days driving to Zurich and then we have to hook up with keys to the flat and our goods.    Linda will then disappear to her new office and Gary will be left to find the toilet paper, coffee pot and scotch.

Rested and ready to charge, charge, charge
 

They are only getting started. Milan year end sales went through the roof. 

Linda tuckered out after watching Phyllis power shop 

Phyllis just exhausted her self signing her name to all those credit card slips 

It's Decided--Zurich

It has finally been decided: we are moving to Zurich, Switzerland toward the end of the month and should be formally in residence on January 1!     Our new address is Kapfsteig 44, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.    

The apartment lease arrived this afternoon and should be on its way back to the attorneys tonight.   Now, we just hope that the flat is the one that we remember.    After looking at so many over a two day period, it is always possible that we have mixed and matched the details of the various ones we saw.    But as we remember it, it has two complete bathrooms, a nice kitchen a fairly large living room, ample dining room and a huge rap around deck that will provide a lot of outdoor living. It also comes with a full two car garage, additional parking for two more cars off the street and ample storage rooms.  

Of course life would not be without a hitches.     The application for visa requires a copy of our wedding certificate.   That is, of course the one document that we did not bring with us to Sweden.    Linda is now hoping that the local office of IBM kept a copy for their files.     Oh well.

 
 

The next move is still in the talking stages, but Zurich, Switzerland looks like a possibility for a year. Linda needs to have a few details like actual duties and expectations, authority, pay and allowances to be nailed down. Gary is concerned that there is a place large enough within the allowance into which to move all this stuff from Stockholm.

The move would solve the problem of selling the car--we wouldn't have to and let us enjoy Europe for a bit longer. However, Gary still needs to get back to the States for house maintenance and body maintenance duties.

Does anyone have any comments on Zurich?