Lynne on the balcony of our apartment in Marsalforn in Gozo
Since leaving school on the last day of the Spring term Lynne and I have been working from first thing in the morning until the end of the day getting ourselves, our luggage and the house ready. The only exception was a lunch date where Mike Evans had arranged for Lynne and I to meet staff that I had worked with over the last 28 years, some for longer.
Some photographs
It all came together at the right time. Lena and Kate helped. All our possessions fitted into the outdoor and indoor storage. We found a tenant for the house and before we left they had paid the first couple of months rent. The house looked good and Lynne wrote a house book on the last day while I invested some of my retirement lump sum.
We took a 100Kg of luggage with Air Malta for 60 pounds and left Manchester at 9:00pm. I am not sure how we managed to take so much luggage. As the mini bus arrived at the house to take us and our vast quantity of luggage to the airport there was thunder and lighting and the heavens opened. We got soaked. It was raining in Malta when we arrived. It was a long night. We were collected in Gozo by Stephania who helped us carry our luggage up the three flights of stairs to our apartment that is better than we had expected. We went to bed at 6:00am in the morning.
The sea view is amazing.
In the morning I went to see Brian at the dive centre who asked me to start at 8:00am on Monday morning. I liked this as if I had been going to go back to Trinity I would have needed to be in school for the same time. Pascal, a Belgian dive master who I have dived with on a number of occasions was delighted to see me . Pascal’s son is also doing the Divemaster course as well. I think he is 18 so I will be 40 years his senior. I hope he is going to help me!