Now that I’ve learned quite a bit about the life here, I decided to rent a car for the weekend to go buy a TV set and take our things from the current service apartment to the our newly rented apartment in Nussbaumen.
On Friday, I went to book a Ford Mondeo station wagon from a local garage ExtraGent. For 66 Swiss Francs, I got to use the car for 24 hrs. Sound cheap huh! It’s not! There is an additional charge for every kilometers you drive. So, I have to make sure I never get lost not to waste the mileage.
Early this morning I went to get the car. Kind of wary to drive initially thinking of the different driving side to the one I’m used to. But, it wasn’t that confusing after all.
We went to InterDiscount (the only electrical good chain shop which I think exist in this county) to get our TV set. For 399 Swiss Francs we got outselves a 29″ Schneider flat TV. Paying it was easy. Taking is up one floor above to our car was also not bad. But to lift it up into the back of the car was the hardest task. With such weight and box size, it felt like impossible in the beginning. Since we had no choice (don’t expect anyone to help you here), I decided to put the baby on the stoller, let her cry, and with the combined male-female strength of my wife and I, we held our breath and justttt managed to get it into the car. I hope I didn’t damage any part of my back muscle.
And as expected, taking it out of the car into the apartment was also quite demanding … but we managed.
We are ready to move into the new apartment next weekend ….
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