Unemployed in Switzerland

Well it's my first offical day of "unemployment" and what better way to spend it than in Switzerland!! We packed up the last of our things on Saturday and checked out of the flat, which was quite sad, but I am getting used to saying goodbye now to everything familiar. Im surprised the suspension on the car (Vauxhall Corsa) hasn't collapsed by now as it is absolutely rammed to capacity, I wouldn't mind but we are on 1st name terms with the charity shops in Berkhamstead now, we have offloaded so much stuff the last couple of months. I think we'll be in for a bit of a shock when we get back and realise that most of our belongings are in Oxfam shop window!! It was sad leaving Berkhamstead though, it's a lovely place and we will miss it, especially the walks by the canal in summer and the many beer gardens along the way. We flew to Geneva on Saturday afternoon, Steen and Nicola met us at the airport and we came back to their place and had a BBQ , the weather is lovely and sunny. Yesterday we went to Italy for lunch, through the Mount Blanc tunnel, and then on the way back we drove through France, through Chamonix, the scenary was stunning, and Steen is an excellent tour guide (If you look to your left....) Its the only place I've ever been where you can visit three countries in one day!! It's Steens first day in his new job today, Matt was giving him advice last night on what not to wear (yeah like he would know) it goes to show though that the world really is your oyster, Steen and Nicola have never looked back since they left the UK in 2005, they have a fantastic lifestyle over here in Nyon and have both secured really good jobs. Nicolas office actually overlooks Mount Blanc and Lake Geneva, God only knows how she gets any work done! We fly back to Luton tomorrow and then we are doing the family thing for the rest of the week, on Thursday we are going out in Hull for a few farewell drinks with our friends from Comet, and then that really is our last leaving party (there have been too many!!) On Saturday Stew is taking us to Manchester, were staying over Saturday night as we actually fly at 10am on Sunday (OMG!) and then that's us, on our way when hopefully our blog starts to get a little bit more interesting!! We are going to try and get our itinerary on the blog this week (watch this space). Steen and Nicola have been telling us about their time in Sth America, it really does sound fantastic, apparently they delayed their flight out of there 3 times they liked it that much! Will get some Swiss/Italian/French pics on the blog later this week. Have fun in the office ;o) (Just realised the blog settings are in a foreign language so I can't do a spell check, Ian that means my apostrophes will be all over the place, an apostrophe catastrophe!!)