We're hobos!

As of 10:00 AM this morning it’s official: we are now a homeless couple. Our landlord has evicted us. All that we own (well, the stuff that didn’t go into the container, or to the pawn shop or to the dump Cor) is now stuffed into our car, of which the warrant of fitness has run out, to top it all off. We do not even have a bed anymore. Luckily Emma’s parents in the city of Wijchen (near Nijmegen, NL) have agreed to let us stay with them temporarily, so we don’t have to sleep on the car.

This morning we had to hurry to get all the stuff ready on time... after the stress on Monday morning we were so tired that we didn’t do much that afternoon and the following day. Laziness we now have to regret, unfortunately. But oh well, the hand-over of the house went perfect. After the handover we did a last tour of Eindhoven. We did manage to be on the doorstep of the city hall (for unsubscribing ourselves as inhabitants) half an hour after it had closed… I guess we will have to do that by mail now. Our planning lately stands out by our standing before closed doors :-/

In the late afternoon we drove out of Eindhoven for good, destination Emma’s parents. I must say that knowing we wouldn’t return to this city that we had lived in for over a decade was a bit of a strange feeling. The journey was an adventure all by itself though.

Our car was filled to the brim with 4 suitcases, 3 boxes, a tool box, a violin, two duvets, a few planks of wood, an air mattress, a bag with dirty laundry and a bag with garbage (just the standard things you take with you as a homeless person, really).

I could only use the side mirrors, and the car was so heavily loaded that it was rocking to and fro. Emma was sitting on a duvet while she had one on her lap as well, because they would not fit anywhere else if our life depended on it.

After we arrived in Wijchen, we unloaded the lot, dragged it all upstairs to the attic and now Emma is living with her folks again.