Moving with pets...

This is not a post for someone who doesn’t care about animals...

I can live without the brands and products that I'm used to, but my cat... Well... Maybe I'm just too careful, but the fact is that we had to change her food and her hairball medicine, because we can't find the same here, and she had trouble going to the "little box" and wouldn't eat.
After 2 days her poop was so though... Poor little thing! She wouldn't get better so I went looking for another food, and I ended up buying food that also helps with hairballs. Now she eats more (but still less that in Portugal, I think mainly because now she doesn't go for walks in the street), and her poop is fine after only one day! Yeah!

My tip for these kind of situations is to bring your animal's stuff to your destination if you don't know if you will find the same things there. It's easier to change their habits slowly, mixing the new things with the old ones.

Better no floor than no roof, right? :D

So… this you should be aware, because it’s different: When renting a house in The Netherlands you can be renting a house with no furniture… and no floor!

That's right! Maybe it’s because of the carpets, I don’t really know, but that’s how they do it! You are supposed to pick a floor and have someone to lay it. When you move out you can try to sell it to the next tenant, but if you are not that lucky you will have to remove the floor! It’s not as easy as you would think! We tried to do it ourselves (to help the neighbour) but it was so well glued in all the area so we were exhausted after removing 50 cm!

Note: It turns out there are two machines – one that will rip up the floor and another to remove all the glue… But don’t be deluded - the floor that you paid for at the beginning will be completely ruined.
After this we decided to only have a floor when we have our own house!

 Here is an exemple of no floor, it's a store in a shopping.

First things first!

Well, I arrived so late that I only unpacked the next day, but guess what?

In the bedroom there was a noise like some kind of machine working. We couldn't find what it was exactly, and my boyfriend was like "this noise? It's normal, you will get use to it". (And I was like "will I have to explain again the harm that noise can do? Tomorrow? :D" 

I could get some sleep but I woke up several times during the night.

The fact that I had to leave most of my things back in Portugal had a advantage: I didn't waste many time unpacking and straighten my things, in around 20 minutes I was already helping a colleague of my boyfriend moving out to his new house.

Talking to another colleague that also lives in the same building, I found out that the noise in the bedroom can be stopped, but we didn't figure out how. The solution found is to turn off the bedroom fuse, so every night we go to bed at candle light, very romantic. LOL

Note: Having a limit to your luggage also means that some of the essencial stuff that you couldn't bring will have to be sent by post or eventually you will end up buying new ones.

First step - Pack and travel

For starters I could only bring essential stuff, many of my things are still at home. We really need to move out to see how many crap we collect in a small amount of time. Some stuff that I couldn’t bring will be send by post.


The flight was terrible; all I could think was “poor cat”! When I arrived to Rotterdam’s airport I had a back pack, two coats and my purse, and I had to go get my luggage and my cat. The airport is so little, two flights arrived at the same time, and all the passengers were around the only conveyor belt and everyone had a trolley…


My baggage was taking so long... I couldn't decide whether to get the cat first or the luggage. The cat arrived, she was fine but nervous and her cage was almost opening, don’t know what happened… I picked up my baggage and we went home.Finally she could smell around and began to eat and drink as normal. I was surprised by her reaction, she didn't cut us off or anything, she looks happy!


Note: when travelling with animals bring a leash – the animal may need to take a walk and mostly you need to take the animal out of the transport box to pass the x-ray machine!