My daughter with her boyfriend in Cape Town and happy that they got an earlier flight back to Germany today. Unfortunately we had to cancel our vacation with them in South Africa due to the global coronavirus crisis.
We are still in Italy - in home quarantine for almost 2 weeks now and we are desperately hoping that the numbers will go down soon.
What a tragedy! For sure the world will be another one when global immunity has been reached or a vaccination against the virus has been found. Such a major break offers chances but also bears a lot of threats for making the world a better or worse one . I hope that global solidarity will win over national isolation and that international federations of states will show strong leadership in forming our future social fabric.
The country-wide lockdown allows me to catch-up with the blog which I basically neglected since the shakedown cruise at the beginning of the 2018 sailing season. One of the main reasons was that there was no further sailing in 2018 as we were extremely busy preparing our move back from Brussels to Italy. This time, it was not just a simple removal (whereas no removal is simple) but a major downgrading at the same time as our kids are now out of the house for their studies. Thus, we moved from a 5 bedroom villa with a large cellar and garage, into a 2 bed-room apartment. We were extremely busy sorting, packing, selling and depositing household goods for a period of almost three months. Finally we sold/deposited about 1/3 of the household, put another 1/3 into a long-term storage in Germany and moved with about 1/3 of our household into our new home in Italy.
We are extremely happy with the apartment and the small garden attached to it which we found as our new home. It has a spectacular view to Rome and the Sea, is only 10 min by car to work, and has restaurants and shopping possibilities in walking distance. The next step was to bring T-Fish back from Sardinia to Italy main land, closer to our new home, allowing us to use her during week-ends.
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