Container arrives safely
Our container arrived last Tuesday morning. We packed the container ourselves and had help loading it. We did it this way because when we moved from CA to Philadelphia we used a moving company and they broke thousands of dollars of our things. We gathered all the documents and got quotes etc to make a claim against them only to find out they had declared bankruptcy. Funny, even in bakruptcy all of the contact people were the same. The name had changed though, it was East West Moving now it was West East Moving. Movers are gangsters. Don’t even get me started about what happened when they delivered our stuff.
Luckily this time around we packed our stuff well and got a container of our own and it looks like everything is fine. We were going to have it delivered here in Le Buisson so we could access some things that we needed immediately. We decided that we would ship it to Toulouse and store it there until we move. It will be cheaper than moving it again to Toulouse. Our storage place is under 60 euros a month.
We drove down Tuesday morning, helped unload it, took some of our stuff back to Le Buisson. It was painless. We now have our bicycles. We went for our first bike ride on Friday afternoon.
When we moved in 2003, we used a moving company that came and packed our house, put it in a container, shipped it from San Francisco to France, then drove it to our house and unpacked. It was Allied international. They were great and not a single item was broken. And we have a lot of glass…