Moving Day!

Before I left the US, I ran the numbers on buying some new furniture in the UK and having our furniture stored vs having our furniture shipped over. I met with a couple different moving companies. The first was an International Moving company who wanted $10,000. The second was Shumacher Cargo, a shipping company who wanted $6,200 for a door to door shipment of my furniture. I quickly realized that when moving internationally, it was a much better deal to think of the move as an international shipment of cargo, albeit my furniture, than to think of it as an international household move.


Because the dogs couldn't enter the UK until after November 30th, Tony stayed in the US at the house even though I headed over to London back in July. In order to have our furniture delivered before Christmas, the shipping company recommended having everything shipped out at the beginning of November.



Monday November 9th was the day of the big move. A truck pulled up to the house in Los Angeles at 8:30 am with a crew of 4 people. They wrapped all the bottles of wine and alcohol, and boxed up all of the furniture.




153 boxes later, all of our stuff was loaded onto their truck. The truck was then driven back to their office where everything was transfered to a 7' x 7' x 20' container.





At this moment, all of our furniture is at the port in Long Beach waiting to be loaded onto a ship with a sailing date of November 20th that will carry it across the pond to Thames Port. There, it will be placed onto a truck again, and driven to our apartment in London.








It is estimated to arrive in London on December 18th. They usually deliver, pending any holdups in customs, within 4 days. that would be December 22nd. We packed all of the christmas ornaments and decorations. W

ith a little luck, we'll have quite a lot of unwrapping to do for Christmas indeed. . .