So many things to think about

We really thought it would be easy. No, no, not so. Easy was to buy the place two years back. Easy has been to stay in our place a month or so. Now, we aim to be in Spain for more than six months, take the residency and only stay in Finland for the warmest months of the year.

So many questions. Do we have to inform the authoroties in Finland about our move? How will we manage to get all the red tape made in Spain? The latter is easier to answer, we have our wonderful Hugo with the radiant Rory to take care of all our legal business.

Mail, magazines, what to close, what to take with us? We sent some boxes and my bike beforehand, the guy who collected them came with a baker´s van!!!!!! What the hell!!!! He was very glad and happy rabbit, not a care in the world, but oh my, when I asked is there any papers to sign he said, noooo, I don´t know where these are going to, they will know better in the garage. Really, so I sent my precious bike, a lot of books nearly all our Christmas deco with only trust. This might have worked in former Finland, where you could trust to a hand shake and man´s word, but this is 2000s! So I made some icy calls and got a patronizing answer from a young man for lady not to worry, since how was the baker´s vandriver to know where to go and collect, if he wasn´t in the right place. Yes, darling, what interests me more than where my things were send from is where will they be shipped to. He assured me they will come in time. Future will tell.

In the other end; I have ordered for a broadband to be installed on a certain date, as well as getting my tv back. Upstairs neighbour, or his agent, stole our tv dish for their own purposes, we had a long and entwiling debate over the legality of it all, but finally I decided to sort the legal part later with my darling Hugo and settle now only ordering a new dish and new channels when we will be there.

Now back to making lists of everything and starting to collect things to pack. These does not include so much of cloths and shoes but items like a good potato peeler, yarn for knitting socks, later in-laws nice bread basket and so.