claire600

Hi there

We had a smooth landing on 1st April and our container was delivered yesterday. We packed ourselves and everything arrived perfectly. We are just settling in and enjoying having our own belongings around us.

Good luck to all those still waiting

Claire600

Stu-pot

Welcome to NS

PS don't forget to change your location profile, i know cos i got about too

wbexpat

Ha ha.
Brings back memories of when our stuff came.
I cried tears of joy to see a proper bed again!
Good job!

claire600

We were minimalist and now we are MAX We packed ourselves and could only get total loss insurance ... when we opened the doors and saw everything where we had left it, it was a huge relief.

Claire

McBotts

Just out of interest- how long did it take for your container to arrive? We are packing up in 2 weeks time.... exciting!!! All the waiting is nearly over!

Is there anything that you wish you had of brought over with you to NS?

Have fun and good luck to you.
Kim x

claire600

Hi There

It takes around 12-18 days. One week at sea and the rest depends on the day the ship sails and how quickly the truck company can get it to you once it's arrived and cleared. You can track the ship on line too

We sold the stuff that wouldn't work or gave it to family. We got rid of anything we really didn't want any more but we shipped everything else, bed, sofas, bikes, toys from childhood.

The only thing we couldn't bring was Matt's motorbike as it is nearly impossible to import a new bike. But we bought our crash helmets and clothing as they are expensive here and ours were new.

I did not ship food or the home made wine - but we shipped our wine/beer making equipment....

Are you packing yourselves?

Good luck with the move

Claire

McBotts

No we are not doing our own packing- We are having Whites do it-they said to allow 6 weeks.

The beer and wine making equipment sounds like an interesting idea- we will now have space to do something like that. Is it easy to do? Do the end results taste okay? I think it is something I just may enjoy! Something else to look forward to!

claire600

The wine making kits range form $50-$130 dollars and they make 30 bottles of wine. We had great success with Pino Grigio and we also made Elderflower, Rhubarb and Fig wine from scratch ... We made Chablis Blush from a kit and that was good.

It is straight forward and the kits are a lot more successful that 20 years ago

It fun tasting

We tried to make Cider from a kit that was not good ... but we have been told we will be able to buy apple juice from a $1 a litre from farmers and that makes great cider

Have fun

Claire

irishsamx

Hi Claire

Where are you? we are in Truro, have been here nearly 3 months and loving it.
I would love to pick your brains about the wine making kits, sounds interesting, think we might give it a go.

How are you settling in?

claire600

Hi there

We are near Windsor and our local wine making store is in New Minas. The guy there was really helpful and they are the best people to recommend the most popular kits.

We made some fruit wines from scratch using an old wine making recipe book I bought from Amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Steps-...9844859&sr=1-1

We are slowly unpacking - felt very weird having our belongings here ... it is all sinking in and we had a bit of a quiet sad day yesterday. Today the sun has been shining and we are much happier

Good Luck - Maybe we could start a wine making thread .....

Claire

seaham gal

We made wine a couple of times from scratch back home - then found a bloke who sold it for 50 pence a bottle - boy was his door busy!

Since coming here we have used this company:

http://winekitz.com/index.php?id=23&content=Locations

All you have to do is stir in the yeast (to keep things legal) and they look after it till they ring you to come to bottle it.

Suppose we must have got lazy though - go to the offy now!