A new era

The workers.

After a lot of work on Woz's part we were able to organise for the Fiat to be delivered to us last night. Our intial thought was to drive our car to Poland to pick it up, and then we would drive home in the two cars, however we discovered that the car wasn't registered in Poland (or roadworthy) thus the bargain price. Thankfully Woz is exactly the right kind of person to buy an unroadworthy car and bring it up to scratch, so that wasn't daunting, however we had to first ensure that we'd be able to register the car here. It is an Italian car, purchased from the Netherlands, and then sold to us in Poland so the back history was a bit complicated. (Not unlike us!) We're 99 per cent sure we can register it, and it will be a similar process to when we imported our car from the States so we've been through the beureacracy before and will take it in our stride.

We don't actually have a carpark with our house (it is a townhouse which is directly on the street) so we had the car delivered to a car park in the village where we have purchased a community permit for a very reasonable price. So, the Fiat has a home, and there is plenty of room there for Woz to spread out and work, and it is quite private too.

Nate was beyond excited last night when it was delivered and this afternoon after school I dropped him straight off at the Fiat to hang out with Woz and dream about how we're going to set it up.

We did have a slight hitch when it was delivered. The skylight came off in transit. Woz drew the driver's attention to it when he arrived and the driver was horrified. Firstly because he was delivering the car in a worse condition than the photograph and secondly because he was worried it had caused an accident or damage to other cars ... somewhere between here and Poland. Thankfully we have a full week of sun forecast but in the meantime, Woz has had to make a makeshift repair to the roof. He'll make something more permanent tomorrow now that he has worked out a solution, and in the meantime we'll try to source a replacement sunlight.

Today was the first of many days working on the camper to get it up to the standard we want it to be in, both mechanically and cosmetically. We know that it will be worth a lot more once we've done all the work, but more than that, we plan on it being the beginning of a new lifestyle for us, one that will be an incredible childhood memory for Nate, and for us to look back on as a family.

To the Fiat!

Woz's overnight solution to the massive hole in the roof!