transformation

Some more scraping of doors in the morning. Two sides are left to do. We should get it done this weekend. Trip into town for a wander. We ended up walking through a new development that replaced the Tacheles. I remember going there in 2004 to see Penelope Houston. It was a good gig in a great venue. I much prefer the handmade, graffiti covered place to the concrete desert that it is now. According to wikipedia a penthouse flat is going for ten million Euros...

A new front in our struggles with German bureaucracy has opened. Unbeknown to us, we exceeded the twelve month period in which you can move your household duty free. Given that a huge part of the holdup (six months in fact) was due to the mess-up with Rowan's appointment to get her residency and thus right to work sorted we think we should be able to get an extension. It is, however, yet another part of the bureaucracy that undoubtedly will be as quickly sorted as all our other issues. On the bright side, there is probably no need to hurry to get the new flat sorted...