Goodbye Arab Bank Building

Tying up the apartment got sorted pretty much at the last minute (why would it be different?). It turned out that my friend Liz had just moved to a new place so she took our bed, the office furniture and the water cooler and was very glad of the contents of my store cupboard. I thought the guy who bought the lounge furniture was not going to come back to collect the last settee and make the final payment and cursed that I hadn’t taken all the money off him at the time. However a ‘disappointed’ email soon sorted that out. In the end we were left with the brand new and expensive spare room furniture and the white furniture from our bedroom – we got offered AED 200 for it when it cost nearly AED 7000 so I decided to ship it to Manchester and sort out the problem of having rather a lot of furniture afterwards! The packers from Crown Relocations were brilliant and managed to pack all the extra stuff into the 8 cubic metres we’d already paid for and they were so quick and thorough I was bowled over. It more than made up for having to argue with the office about the value of our stuff and then having to itemise huge amounts of it in order not to pay to insure a ridiculous value!
With everything packed up, sold or on its way to Manchester we decamped to the Shangri La for the last few days whilst we got everything else finished off and to allow for hiccups.