Posts

Showing posts with the label countdown

A matter of time, or two!

I made a couple of time related observations today that I thought were worth relating. The first being my encounter with possibly the world’s slowest petrol pump. The old Toyota combi needed fuel – or ‘oil’ as it is often translated – so before my usual home-time run after Klub I popped out to fill it up. The two inaccuracies in that last statement are very few petrol stations are self service, so someone else does the filling, and ‘popped’ implies it was quick. I was pleased that I got things in progress using my best local language but there was no way I was about to strike up casual conversation to while the hours away. Perhaps my silence translated as impatience, I did get an apologetic explanation on the state of the pump, the details of which were, sadly, lost on me. I do quite a bit of driving around Mostar and I’ve crossed Spanish Square more times than I can remember but I’ve noticed what I saw tonight. I’ve been in London, New York, Paris, Rome, Madrid and never seen this par...

A month today...

A month today we'll arrive in Mostar. In the words of Europe: it's the final countdown ! So how are our plans progressing? Well, our house is rented and our car will be advertised for sale online from tonight. We are at NoviMost HQ next week for trainnig and orientation and then the packing begins in earnest! Having not done this before it's hard to know if we're on target or not, however we're not panicing so that must be a good thing! In other, not entirely unrelated, news I joined a new video social networking site the other day. Vloggerheads is still in an 'invite-only' stage of development but it seem I have friends online! I made a video introducing myself and talked about our move. Within hours someone had repsonded with a video asking if we were being salaried, or how we were being supported. This provided the opportunity to make a very un-English video about asking for money - including mentioning the PayPal button on our Facebook profiles . Anothe...