I'm already in Lyon! But it haven't been easy!
We planned to do everything in around three weeks, which looked enough for a first settling in, and it was, what we didn't know at that moment is the big effort it supposed to get there.
Our first week was in Madrid in order to separate the things we wanted to keep in the house, the things that we wanted the moving agency to take and the things that we wanted to carry ourselves in the car. It didn't suppose too many problems really, the guys of AGS were very professional, they spent a full day to pack everything with care and after we were ready to take the car and go!
We tried to have a relaxed trip so we stopped in Barcelona which is just in the middle of the way to Lyon. There we have good friends and we enjoyed a great dinner with them. The next day was most of the road trip in France, many highways to pay, but no issues reported.
The arrival was the moment to clean the apartment and to paint some walls (as it was too white for us!!), just after we had to buy all the missing furniture and all the appliances. These were very busy days! The good thing is that it gave us the possibility to start getting in touch with the shops, malls, etc.
Still, the worst part was about to come when we had to assemble all the furniture from IKEA (1.2 tons!!) and to set up the appliances in a badly designed kitchen furniture... For the IKEA thing we finally had to hire two guys to assemble a big part of them as it was far too much to do in the time we had left.
Finally the result of the move was a beautiful and ready-to-use apartment and the balcony packed with empty boxes.
We planned to do everything in around three weeks, which looked enough for a first settling in, and it was, what we didn't know at that moment is the big effort it supposed to get there.
Our first week was in Madrid in order to separate the things we wanted to keep in the house, the things that we wanted the moving agency to take and the things that we wanted to carry ourselves in the car. It didn't suppose too many problems really, the guys of AGS were very professional, they spent a full day to pack everything with care and after we were ready to take the car and go!
We tried to have a relaxed trip so we stopped in Barcelona which is just in the middle of the way to Lyon. There we have good friends and we enjoyed a great dinner with them. The next day was most of the road trip in France, many highways to pay, but no issues reported.
The arrival was the moment to clean the apartment and to paint some walls (as it was too white for us!!), just after we had to buy all the missing furniture and all the appliances. These were very busy days! The good thing is that it gave us the possibility to start getting in touch with the shops, malls, etc.
Still, the worst part was about to come when we had to assemble all the furniture from IKEA (1.2 tons!!) and to set up the appliances in a badly designed kitchen furniture... For the IKEA thing we finally had to hire two guys to assemble a big part of them as it was far too much to do in the time we had left.
Finally the result of the move was a beautiful and ready-to-use apartment and the balcony packed with empty boxes.
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