I’m just catching my breath. Sold two armchairs and our rug today as well as all our gorgeous trees & plants and small appliances. The living room is particularly sparse now. It’s going to be a lot more difficult for the real estate agent to rent our apartment looking like this. Serves them right.

If you didn’t remember, the whole reason we started the process of moving again last December was because our landlord refused to renew our lease telling us that although we were good tenants, he needed to put the house on the market to sell. We offered more money, we pleaded and we begged because we wanted to stay in Glasgow for another year. All to no avail. Fast forward 4 months to the end of April when we were having nightmares with the French authorities, we received an email from the real estate agent stating that the landlord had changed his mind, and would be quite happy for us to stay in the apartment for another year at the same rate if we were interested! B#*&$a%d….

Anyway. We’re off to Paris on another adventure. We’re still not sure what kind of life it’s going to be, whether we will be able to afford to travel as much as we did while we were here (the £ goes a long way when you travel….). I’m sure there’ll be some changes, some tightening of the belt required here and there, but there will also be the adventure factor, plus the good wine, the fresh food markets, and the fact that it’s PARIS. We’ll see.

I’ve been busy closing down accounts, doing change of address’, chucking old stuff and binning as much as possible, getting ready for the movers on Wednesday and Thursday. We’re going to lose the internet soon as well as our phone line, and it probably won’t be up again for a couple of weeks, although I’ll try and check in every couple of days from an internet cafe or similar… my UK mobile phone will still function for a few weeks, and we have a ‘portable’ already in Paris (if you need the number just email me) so we won’t be too far away.

Regular trips to the cafe for caffeine fixes and the pub for a pint or two or three are still pencilled in – so if you fancy meeting up before we go, give us a bell!