Today we wanted to get all the painting finished, which meant an early start and me helping get the first coat of primer on before work. Dressed in grubby painting clothes we headed down for breakfast, trying to ignore...
We’re getting close! Today we put on the second layer of primer in the morning, and the third came on late in the evening. Tomorrow morning the last coat of primer comes on, and then hopefully 2 more layers of...
No rest for the wicked. Actually, thankfully today there was because try as we might, they wouldn’t let us into the yard to start the painting (which was actually a bit of a relief!). They’re closed on a...
We were up at sparrow fart to get going with primer coat #2. When I woke up, still feeling pretty rough I wasn’t sure this was a good idea. The thought of poor Tom having to face this alone though was enough to get me...
We’ve been living on the boat full time for about three weeks. After the seemingly never ending period of moving out of the apartment, we spent the first night not quite believing there wasn’t yet more stuff...
This Sunday marks our first week here in Barcelona, and boy – what a week it was! Hunting for an apartment, starting a new job, walking miles across the town, finding cute little restaurants … all of this in...
This was it – our last day living in Amsterdam. I jolted awake 10 minutes before the alarm was supposed to go off, sure I’m hearing burglars trying to find their way in despite the alarm system that we had...