OK so where do we begin....

2007 was the year everything changed. It was back in January that a random "Google" search whilst at work at Nomura ( where I spend 80% of my time on the internet!), brought to my attention a website that was advertising houses for sale in "the picturesque village of Chiaramonti". So I sent off an email to them requesting information and in March flew out to view a property, by April we bought it and by May 12th we had sold the London house; packed all our belongings; put Mick,9 cats , 2 dogs and a driver(Mark) into a large white van and we all drove across Europe to our new home in Chiaramonti.



Euro Road Trip...

The journey down to Sarinia was very easy , made all the more so thanks to the fantastic service from Mark Jones and his pet relocation company www.petmove.co.uk ; who put the needs of the animals as his priority. Which was a great comfort to me.As testimony to this all the animals settled into there new home in a record breaking 24 hours!.


The only 2 hitches where at Mont Blanc - where the border control officer couldn't get there heads around the idea that all 11 animals where our pets. I don't think they had ever seen so many pet passports!and secondly at the ferry over where we had to house Gerry in a crate barely big enough to accommodate him, but we snuck him into our cabin after dark and back into the crate just before we moored at Olbia.Then all we had to do was drive the last 100km to Chiaramonti where the adventure could really begin.