the moving movie

©expat copenhagen - the moving movie

after a long long long week jen, tetsuya and I have our first weekend here in københavn. although we are tied to the bed (aka the couch) because I caught a cold, jen is suffering from allergy and tetsuya hurt his leg while running toooooooo hard and enthusiastically on the grass close to the opera.

It's been a hard time the last two weeks packing, moving and unpacking but I somehow got sick of telling the whole story over and over again. For that reason I made a little movie with all our pictures and hope some of you can experience how it was (to move about 1.5 tons of our stuff).

I also want to shoot a special thanks to our friends who helped out even when we lost our last reserves. Also to our family who supported us not only financially but also with love and helpful reminders! And last but not least a special thanks to our new and first danish friends Sune & Kristina who not only rent us their lovely apartment but also help out with any question and also with their muscles for our most precious goods.

this movie is hosted by youtube but you can also watch it in a better quality on my web gallery.

enjoy!!

there

we made it

after a long long long trip finally to our now home! it's been hard and exhausting but now that we had our first night here we're finally happy!

2 more days & I am still a freak & party !!!

©expat copenhagen - invitation

It's Monday and this is my 3rd last workday in Vienna! I cant wait for leaving this office! Been too lang that I had fun here! No offence, but since my team here was always very "busnessy" I just had very little funny times! So I'm not sad to leave this place which I consider as OK!

After a weekend off from moving duties I somehow feel the pressure in my neck coming! Our apartment here in Vienna is a total mess! Just imagine everything you have but not placed in your drawers or storage, just layed out on the floor! We'll start with packing everything on Thursday and I'll try to cover this with daily pictures of every room!

For the moving we'd been lucky to get the little truck of our relatives from Salzburg! They borrow it to us over the long weekend of the 1st june! I've already posted a sketch of our tour so maybe now it's understandable! I've started to draw the loading deck of it in 3d and did a 3d packing plan! I was somehow scared of not fitting everything in! but my 3d packing plan was telling me "yes we can" (maybe Im a kind of matha steward -or architect freak but better testing it then,..)

©expat copenhagen -the transporter

©expat copenhagen -3d packing plan

last but not least, our leaving party is off on wednesday! we are about to hit the 30 people mark and I hope we'll enjoy the evening with some strawberry bowle and all our friends!

our moving sale

©expat copenhagen - moving sale

the moving sale, we held through out the last weekend, went quite well, considering that I made the misstake putting it on a sat. of a long weekend! well we made 120 € and sold 1/4 of our stuff which is totally fine I guess!

It's shocking when you see how much goods oneself's got and was never in use. one could make a study of dead value hidden in drawers and boxes of each and every apartment or house. that would be radical! it would open consumers eyes and it would hopefully change thinking of everybody! well I'm already starting to think of starting that project!
wow!

..... to be continued!

from 110 m² to 40 m²

©expat copenhagen -tetsuya, his first ride in a christiania!

moving isn't easy! moving isn't always fun! and moving when you leave country is quite hard work! with us there is a certain fact that makes our moving very hard!

here in Vienna we moved into a nice apartment in the 4th district which is very cheap for the size. it has 3 rooms, kitchen, bathroom,... and 110 m² so very big!!!

in Copenhagen we will move into a very very nice apartment in Christianshavn with a reasionable price for the location! it's got only one room less and but a lot less sqare meter, 40!!!

we'll need to get ride of a lot of stuff! not only furniture but also "the cultural waste" one accumulates over time which is never used again! we'll hold one or two markets with friends and hope that we'll be able to get ride of the stuff!

back & planning

©expat copenhagen - jen & tetsuya in a christiana bike in front of the theater

after beautiful Easter Holidays in Salzburg with my family we're back in Vienna. Now the planning and the moving is getting closer. The date of leaving is approaching and still so many things to do!
As we are only partly well organized, I've decided to have a look at the martha steward tip's for moving which Jen already did months before! These are simple handy lists with chapters 2 month before 6 weeks,.....
Well if it helps!

It was so strange coming back to our old apartment in Vienna, it seemed to be so empty and lifeless! Im already thinking of what I have to see before I leave. Well, we'll miss Vienna and there'll be times when we'll think back! BUT these days have to come and when they come we're in beautiful Copenhagen which means we've made it! ;-)

with all the stress we've somehow left aside our ambition of learning danish continously. As our course starts again next monday we'll have to repeat some stuff!