Foreign Perspectives

It’s been almost two years since we’ve had a trailer on the car but with the move date approaching fast it was time to get a tow bar on the car and darned expensive it is too. That’s, of course, the problem with trailers: not only are you out EUR 1000 or more on the trailer itself but you’ve also got to pencil in another EUR 500 for a tow bar.

Separately from that we’ve made a start on the packing and trying to work out just how much will actually fit into the trailer. At the moment, it seems like quite a lot but, as always, no matter the amount of space that you have available, it’s never quite enough as there are always last minute things that you’d not thought of and then there are those things that fall into the “wouldn’t it be nice if we could take that?” category which expand to fill any space available, no matter how large it might have appeared initially.

What’s a really plus point this time around is that we’ve loads of rooms available and have the luxury of being able to accumulate all the stuff in one room in a rough trailer-shaped pile so, in theory, it should be fairly simple to relocate said pile into the trailer. Not only that, we can park the trailer in our courtyard so can pack it over a few days and just hook it up the night before we head off.