Packing? Moving? Italy? – January 03, 2022

We returned from Italy after spending a week. Mogli and I enjoyed running around and meeting new people. Everyone we met was so nice.

My humans had a couple of meetings over the days, and it looked like they were happy with what they achieved.

Now back in Fachbach they worked a lot for a couple of weeks, sitting in front of these big boxes and stressed. The weather wasn’t very good and Mogli and I weren’t too keen to go for a walk.

Once we met the owners of Chloe and Cindy and my owners got the news that Cindy crossed the rainbow bridge. This was sad news.

After some weeks my humans started moving around things, bringing more stuff from the storage and packing boxes. All of a sudden ,a lot of packed boxes were everywhere in the apartment. Normally when that happens, we are usually about to move somewhere else but the last time they packed boxes like that we moved from Frankfurt to the USA. Are we going back to Nevada? But no, they did not talk about Nevada or flights, they talked about Italy!

In the neighborhood were Christmas decorations everywhere but in our apartment. Nothing!

One day my humans took Mogli and me for a ride in the car. The place we went to was filled with trailers of all kinds. My humans bought a trailer, what does that mean now? I am confused!

A few days later my master picked up the trailer and some days later he started putting all the boxes in the apartment on the trailer. At the end of the day the apartment was almost empty, no more boxes, suitcases or anything else that belonged to us.

The next morning, we got up early and off we drove. While we were driving my humans told Mogli and me that we are moving to Italy. They signed a rental contract for a house and will work in Italy as IT specialists.

WAIT A MINUTE !!!! Does that mean I will not be able to see Alina and Milli anymore? I don’t speak Italian; how can I communicate with the dogs in Italy? My English is good, my French not too good, but Italian?

Well, there’s nothing I can do about this, and I remember the weather was much better in Italy. I think I already told you I love the sun. Off to new adventures.

The first day we had a long drive. My mistress told us that two days before we left the rules of traveling changed. We had to go through Switzerland without any stops to be able to make it to Italy on time, because the test for that virus would expire the next day.

It rained a lot and Mogli and I were sleeping in the car. With the trailer hatched we couldn’t drive as fast as usually, not that my humans would drive very fast.

After a very, very long drive we arrived at the Hotel, the Best Western Albavilla Hotel & Co www.albavillahotel.it

The gateway was very steep, and the car had problems pulling the trailer but managed. We had a nice room, and my humans were very tired. They watched TV for a while and fell asleep early and so did Mogli and I.

As the next day we did not have to drive too far my humans slept in. Mogli and I waited in the car while our humans had breakfast.

It was a 5 hours drive the next day and we arrived in Florence where my mistress had booked a room at the Best Western Plus CHC Florence. When she made the reservations for the hotels she asked if there was enough room to park the car with the trailer and if it was safe. Everything that belongs to my humans was on the trailer; so they had to be careful. When we arrived in Florence there was no parking lot at the hotel. My mistress stopped on the street and my master went into the hotel to ask where the parking lot was located. When he came back, he was very angry. They couldn’t find the reservation and the parking lot was about 500m apart from the hotel. My humans decided that if the parking lot was save, they were ok with this.

But there was no parking lot, it was a public parking area and no room for a big car with a trailer. My mistress walked back to the hotel to find a solution. The clerk did not even try to find a solution, but he suggested another hotel, close to that one, which had a big parking lot. We got a room in that hotel called Hotel Mirage. My master drove to the hotel and meanwhile my mistress booked a room there and arranged a parking space for our long vehicle. It wasn’t the same standard as the Best Western my humans said but it was ok.

The next morning, we left for our last day of driving. When we arrived Mogli and I were wondering. We arrived in Broccostella, in the hotel we have been some months ago. That can’t be the house they rented.

We didn’t mind because running free was great after sitting in the car for three days.

Mogli and I were told that the house will be available on January 4^th and meanwhile we would stay at the hotel. As we were the only guests, we were allowed to accompany our humans when they had breakfast.

We spent a relaxing week in Broccostella and enjoyed the sun and surrounding.

Italy, here we are! Let’s see what the future brings. Work would not start before January 5^th for my humans, and they too were able to relax.