Things to do

[luckykaa]

Belgium contract:

• Find somewhere to stay.  
• Find somewhere to live longer term.  
• Decide how to get there.  Plane or train?

"Somewhere to live" is a real pain.  Sony is out in the sticks, near the airport, slightly into the Flemish area.  I think I'd prefer to live a bit closer to the City. I don't want to keep changing buses though, so need somewhere on one of the bus routes.  De lijn (Flemish) doesn't seem to travel far lot into the city.  STIB (French Brussels city bus service) doesn't go anywhere near where I work.  I think there are one or two buses that will work.  What I want is a map where I can overlay bus routes and overlay the locations of accommodation.  

Contact at Sony gave me a useful website though. Serviced flats are a little pricey but low hassle, and I can afford it.  Just a question of picking where.

Moving out:

• Give notice on Brighton pad.  
• Cancel utilities.
• Pack.
• Find storage company.  Annoyingly, most of them, don't give online prices.  What size do I need anyway?

Parts of this are on-hold for now.  Am still slightly apprehensive about this contract.  Not going to do anything that requires commitment .

Other stuff:

• Campsite hire or work out alternate plans.  
• Properly plan activities.

A lot of the legwork has been done by erestania, to whom I'm exceedingly grateful.  May have left this too late.  Wondering what to do if we can't get anywhere.

So still busy.  Less stressed though.  Things are sort of working out.

Comments

[ingaborg.livejournal.com]

That sounds exciting but scary!

[tanisafan.livejournal.com]

De lijn (Flemish) doesn't seem to travel far lot into the city. STIB (French Brussels city bus service) doesn't go anywhere near where I work. I think there are one or two buses that will work. What I want is a map where I can overlay bus routes and overlay the locations of accommodation.
Hahaha yeah. Good luck with that. We like to make things complicated. But I just looked this up and I would think the bus 471 (De Lijn) is super easy? It stops right by Sony and the final stop is the Brussels Nord station, where you can take like a million buses, trams and metros? So I wouldn't worry!

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Will see if there's a place I can stay within walking distance of Brussels Nord.

How the hell do you lot manage dealing not all speaking the same language? Or do you just throw rocks at each other until you leave each others' region?

[tanisafan.livejournal.com]

I think Brussels sees the best and the worst of it? Because on the one hand, a lot of people there are just fluent in both languages and love it. And on the other hand, there's the people who refuse to speak the other person's language and just act passive aggressive a lot. Sigh.

[omylouse.livejournal.com]

All sounds very exciting/scarey!

When will you actually be leaving us?

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

Off on the 6th May.

Incidentally - still have a t-shirt for you... Wondering if I mighty have time to visit you guys before I leave.