[Snowie]

Moving to Italy

As many of you know Jan & I are moving to live & work in Italy for a few years
Well the time has finally come and we are in the midst of final preparations for the arrival of the removal men on Thursday and Friday of this week.
As anybody who has ever moved knows, it is a stressful and chaotic time; well we are keeping our sense of humour – just about.

We are not helped as it is even more chaos at our house at the moment as we have furniture for 2 houses stored in one house, the last item we have purchased here to move with us arrives tomorrow, so after that we will not even be able to get into the garage. Needless to say it is difficult to find things and do the final sorting out – ‘‘now where is that important file with our Italian papers and Italian bank account’’, this type of debate is going on fairly regularly as we keep misplacing things.

Roll on Thursday morning when the removal men arrive and start to pack things up and put them in the truck, we should start to get some room to be able to swing the proverbial cat around in.

Next week on Monday and Tuesday we move into our new house in Modena and then on Wednesday night I need to be in Sweden for 2 days for work (not popular is an understatement) so the chaos will continue for a few more days.

Both Jan & I are really looking forward to finally getting settled in Italy, it seems to have taken us an age to get all of this sorted out since we found the house in January, the rental contracts are now all sorted and the house decorated and ‘ours’ from Wednesday this week.

It will be a big change in our life, moving to a new country, learning a new language, living together (I have been travelling in Europe and the rest of the world nearly every week for the last 10 years) and for the first time in 25 years having no kids with us – yippee.

We will miss the UK MINI2 community and all of the real and virtual friends we have made, however we will still be very active with both MINI2 and hopefully we will join up with Italian MINI owners and continue the fun and camaraderie of owning and driving a MINI.

Whilst we leave for Italy at the end of this week, we are back in the UK for the Himley Hall group GP display on 11th May and then we are doing the Charity ball as our swansong before we then drive the left hand drive GP down to Italy on 19 / 20th May via Stelvio Pass.

This is not the end, we will be back in the UK for the summer, and then again in November at the end of the Italian Job charity run – got to give the RHD GP some run outs from it’s storage

Anyone who is going to be down in Italy is most welcome to visit, we already have a number of bookings from friends and MINI 2 members – just send us a PM.

Happy MINI motoring to you all

Arrivederci

Alan & Jan

Some pics of our new house in Modena - plenty of parking spaces for MINIS

[Ant FR]

good luck jammy git, if you need someone to turn over the RHD Gp give me a shout.

Oh and don't forget about the exhaust.......lol

[supa-dupa-cooper]

Best of Luck both of you

Im sure we'll come to visit en-route in Italy later in the year

[mikeythemini]

May I wish the 2 of you good luck, hope you have a great time
Lovely place Italy with lovely people

[Snowie]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ant FR (original)

good luck jammy git, if you need someone to turn over the RHD Gp give me a shout.

Oh and don't forget about the exhaust.......lol

Thanks and I already have a list of volunteers to look after the RHD GP

Exhaust will be available between 11 and 19th May

[Tara&Paul]

STELVIO PASS!!!

Ciao.

[Minnie Mouse]

Just want to wish you both the very best of luck with the move and lots of happiness in your lovely new house!

Don't be strangers here though will you!

xx

[Ant FR]

Quote: Originally Posted by Snowie (original)

Thanks and I already have a list of volunteers to look after the RHD GP

Exhaust will be available between 11 and 19th May

Coole well PM me what you want for it, and i'll sort out a pick up etc etc etc. I just realised your gonna be in fezza land too, now i am jealous. I take t you speak the local lingo?

[Harpo]

Hope you have loads of fun in Modena - I for one am extremely jealous (any vacancies?).

Good luck with the move next week, and glad to hear that you have internet access.

If we ever find ourselves in your part of the world, we'll drop you a line.

Meanwhile we'll see you at the Ball next month.

Paul & Rose.

[WEIRD IN WILTSHIRE]

It was really great to meet you on Easter Saturday and being a previous expat myself, do fully understand what's involved! Make lists, keep cool and have a drink at the end of the day. Otherwise trust me when I say it'll just fall into place when you least expect it. You have a beautiful home there and trust to meet you again when you're in the UK. Chloe x

[gpmick]

Best of luck in Italy Hope it all goes well for you both
See you at Himley

Mick and Jenny

[GRSmotorsport]

Alan,

Good luck to you and Jan, I know how hard you work as I used to work for another part of the company you work for myself and appreciate the stress's you're under.

You'll both be sadly missed here in the UK, last time I saw Jan she was busy keeping the tea & coffee tent going at the Top Gear day..

Have a safe journey to Italy

[Shamster]

Best of luck to you both - hopefully see you later this year in the Lakes

[118]

best of luck to you both - from the photos you showed us at Ace the other month, the new house looks fab and as Jo says, we'd love to come and visit you en route to Imola later in the year if we can

[Jacked up]

Best of luck to the both of although i'm sure we'll see you soon enough.

All the best

Nath & Deb

[bubblegoose]

what a lovely part of Italy to settle in!!
you may have a visitor!!

All the best to you both, fingers crossed everything goes well for the move

Dave

[bubblegoose]

Quote: Originally Posted by Ant FR (original)

Coole well PM me what you want for it, and i'll sort out a pick up etc etc etc. I just realised your gonna be in fezza land too, now i am jealous. I take t you speak the local lingo?

not only fezza...

lambo & pagani too

[R99]

Good luck with the move, hope it all goes well.

[MINI_Moocher]

Best wishes to you both.
Glad to hear that you still be around. We will see you next at the ball.

Hope the move goes well for you.
Andrew & Karen

[J8YMP]

Good luck with the move, see you at Himley