Didn’t manage to get round to doing a blog yesterday.
So we had decided to call time on Cyprus. We didn’t have a timescale or any idea how or where we were going to go. We thought we would end up moving in with family as that would have been the cheapest option. I had left home a long time ago, and as much as I love my family I wasn’t too keen to go back home.
Hales had to make a trip back to the UK to sort out the transfer of her job to the new person. I decided to go across with her and just have a look to see what the rental market was like in Ipswich. We still weren’t sure when we would move back, we had just decided we would like to move back to the Ipswich area.
I looked at loads of websites etc of property to rent. There were a few that looked quite good, I was really surprised at how expensive rental had become! I ended up having a look round 1 property while we were over, but it was way too small and i really didn’t like the location.
So we returned to Cyprus to try to figure out what we were going to do next. We knew Hales had some redundancy money coming so we decided that if we could find a place, we would move as soon as possible.
On the 1st day back I received an email from a property rental site for a bungalow in Sproughton. We both quite liked the look of it and decided to make further enquires about it. There was no way we could get back to the UK so soon to have a look round it though, so we asked Hales dad to have a look for us. He looked round for us on the Saturday morning and we spoke to him while he was there.
He confirmed it was a nice place so we decided to see if we could get it before somebody else got there first. It was a bit more expensive than we had planned to pay, but we both liked the property and the location so we went for it straight away. Luckily we got the place, so it was then time to sort out returning to the UK.
So we had returned from the UK on the Wednesday, received details for the place on the Thursday and got Hales dad to look at it on the Saturday! A quick phone call to the agent on the Saturday afternoon, and we secured the place straight away.
We then had 3 weeks to get everything sorted in Cyprus and get over to the UK. Luckily we had always rented fully furnished in Cyprus so we didn’t have loads to sort out. We put everything we had acquired over the 10 years up for sale as it would have cost way too much to ship it to the UK. We managed to sell most of the stuff and gave a few odd bits away to friends.
We had one last trip to the beach
And also met my nephew and his girlfriend as they were on holiday in Cyprus
Well I’ll finish here for today and continue in my next blog
Rob
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