It’s always the same when you do these international moves. It seems ages and ages away and then suddenly you don’t have enough time.

Of course, this time is different. It’s much worse. All of accumulated stuff is in Paris. It has been since we left Vence. Not all of our stuff of course, the car was driven over full and we’ve bought more stuff here. To keep the prices for the move merely astronomical we’re going to ship stuff from Kyiv to Paris and then put all of it together in a container to San Francisco.

Last night we agreed on the quote from the removal company and gave them the go ahead. They did the calculations back from our preferred arrival date (July 1st) and sent me this mail:

Dear Mrs. & Mr. Nolan:
Please confirm that Corstjens can do the pack-out of your household effects
on Monday, May 14 at 10:30 hrs. at your Kiev residence I wish you a nice week-end.
Sincerely,
The Lovely Larysa.