How fun it is to move across the Ocean with all your household belongings...
Maybe a few of you have gone through the tedious process of going to the Embassy first and then the medical check, all the paper work and work permit etc.
AND moving all your belongings inside two 40-foot containers (one for the cars...) across the Atlantic Ocean.
Our 2nd move across the Ocean did not end too well...
That is, we ONLY had to live 8 weeks out of our 4 suitcases.
That is, we ONLY had to live 8 weeks out of our 4 suitcases.
Due to a strike at the harbor in Italy our goods could not get delivered!
An empty apartment with its hollow sounds and our 4 suitcases...
Our kitchen sink and the ONE cooking pot we purchased for making a hearty meal soup or a one-pan dish. Mind you, there was no oven!
Eating out was also limited due to its high cost...
Doing laundry in the bathtub—all by hand!
BUT we lived in the Venice area!
Until finally after 8 weeks, from our 5th floor apartment, we could see the furniture arrive in the big container...
Yes, there was a Bar Belvedere below, more a coffee shop where we enjoyed a great cappuccino.
What a feeling for finally getting back our furniture, after about 4 months...
The men from Gondrand became active...
Scary if they REMOVE the windows and hoist it up on an elevator to our 5th story... and all through the window!
View down from the guest bedroom window, on that elevator...
This was the view from the back of our apartment... Mountain View!
We stayed in Italy for less than a year. Pieter had just changed his American Driver License for the Italian 'Patente' on November 30 of 1989... I never changed mine as we already had plans for moving back to Georgia and working in Indonesia.
In doing so, Pieter lost his motorcycle license as they left it off, for whatever reason.
In doing so, Pieter lost his motorcycle license as they left it off, for whatever reason.
Sadly we lost our Italian pension money because we did not work for 1 year... Nobody told us, or warned us for that.
IT IS WHAT IT IS... My Mantra!
Quite an adventure!
And YES, we did move all our belongings a 3rd time across the Atlantic Ocean...
This is a weird photo... somehow that film roll got double exposure.
De Haan movers from The Netherlands is seen parked alongside the apartment and in the front you see our two white cars side by side...
I've helped those two guys loading the truck and I even loved doing so!
They said they would hire me...
This is the weirdest photo!
Our cars being parked behind each other in front of the apartment in Italy and then you see them again, now parked side by side on Dad's lawn and Dad standing in-between the cars.
My Ford Escort 4 doors with high output and shift stick and Mercury Sable wagon...
We drove them to The Netherlands, in a caravan; only about 12 hours!
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