Operation: GöteBowness

Forgive the crappy title, but it was the only one I could come up with using my limited brain capacity. Anyhoo, the Bowness Train continues to chuffa-chuffa at full pelt - we have just signed a contract to buy a house! We will be moving to Tolered, a suburb in the Hisingen island in Gothenburg. Actually, it's not that far from where I live at the moment - about 5 minutes by bus in fact.

We were either going to go for something in Trollhättan or Göteborg, and we couldn't make our minds up (we've been thinking of moving for quite a few months now). Our minds were in Trollhättan (you get more house for your money, it's quieter but Göteborg is still accessible by train), but our hearts were in Göteborg (this is the city I moved to, and Linda has lived here for a lot of her life). In the end, Göteborg won our hearts. It does mean that Linda will have to commute for a while, but she's had to do it before so it's not too bad. It also means that I'll have to do a lot of housework and cooking because I'll get home first. Hopefully you'll have a mental image of me in a pinafore now, a la "I Want to Break Free" video by Queen. ;) We won't be moving in until the end of April, but that gives me time to pack my stuff up and throw out all the old crap!

So... engaged in December, married in January, bought a house in February... by July we'll have teenagers!

Also, we went on our honeymoon (in Swedish, smekmånad, a translation of which could be "fondle-month!") to Crete a couple weeks ago. It was a beautiful place, and spring-like for the first few days. It got a little overcast and rainy towards the end, but it didn't detract from the vacation at all. We stayed with Linda's mormor and morfar (maternal grandmother and grandfather) whose friends have a villa in Plaka, a small village near Chania on the North penninsula. Bliss! Pictures, for those interested, can be found here.