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Registered in Haarlem!
Time to celebrate! Vil is now officially registered in Haarlem. Within one week he will receive a paper stating the registration and his BSN number and with this he can finally open a bank account in the Netherlands and join a health insurance.
Slowly all will be sorted.
LegalBark!
“Final” Moving Day? Haarlem!
Yesterday we visited a very nice house to share in Haarlem. We met the people and all was very fine. After a few hours they send a message and agreed to have us as homies. 🙂 And today we moved into our new house. We life now in Haarlem with Marie, Orion and my new best friend Kayro. And the best: 40 MBit Internet at home and 80 MBit in the coffee shop.
We will post pictures later.
NOICE!
Indy’s BLOG – First Moving Day! An Odyssey!
Checkout
This morning left the temporary housing because our thirty days are up and we were supposed to move to a hotel near to the airport, so we packed all our stuff called a taxi and we were on our way.
Sheraton Airport Hotel, what a complete waste of money. For one night in the hotel, we could have booked and paid via Airbnb for a whole week or even two. Anyway, they booked the room for us, so we went to the hotel and tried to check in. “TRIED!”
Do you smell shit? YESSSS, right…… THERE IS NO BOOKING.
No booking
Ok, many calls later Vil figured out that the hotel was never booked, that the hotel is booked out and that we need to wait for settle service to come back to us…… So the wait begun. Two hours later we’ve got an update, that they are still looking for a room, but there is none at the airport, all booked out.
Waiting
So we went to have food. A Big Mac, fries, drink, coffee and a smoke later we got another update, that they are still on the search. Allrite,……
Another coffee, a cookie and a long walk later, we finally got the call that we need to go to the Steigenberger hotel. Fine, and there is a shuttle bus from the Airport to the hotel every thirty minutes. Jupieeeeee, we have a place, but Vil is freezing his arse off after hours in the cold and that’s no good.
Steigenberger
Shuttle bus to the hotel and all is fine. A nice room, a real shower, and a comfortable bed. SUPER! 🙂 We slept very well and the breakfast was a treat.
Actually, our stay was planned for two days, but we got the confirmation that we can move to Haarlem today, so we packed our stuff….., BUT …. there is always a BUT!
No Checkout?
Vil had his very nice breakfast, all stuff packed, we wanted to check out, but it was not possible, because the Steigenberger Hotel “locked” somehow more then 690 Euro on Vil’s credit card and to remove that lock he needs to pay his bill of 690 Euro first? What bill? What the f***rick lock,…. BUT Vil had no additional 690 Euro on his credit card anymore. Maxed out by Steigenberger.
Paperwork
So he needed to sign a paper that he allows Steigenberger to “later bill” Vil again. Let’s summarize the situation. The relocation service only booked a room for Vil, but they didn’t arrange the payment and Steigenberger DOUBLE booked the bill on Vil’s credit card. More then 900 Euro already gone, another 240 Euro to be billed and we are BROKE AGAIN! WTF!
So we were finally allowed to leave, take a taxi, drive to Haarlem, payed the last 65 Euro fare and moved into our new place.
1.000 Euro later and “Broke AGAIN?!”
Sure, Vil will get all the expenses back, but until then we are forced to safe money. LoL! Actually not a bad thing, because we have enough money for food for the next days, BUT…… there’s always a BUT,…. Vil has no idea how to pay the train to work.
He, he, he….
!!!ButBark!!!
House Hunting. Haarlem
Vil wrote a post on Facebook yesterday (Klick here!) and he got plenty of replies and tips for our ‘house-hunt’. There was especially a lady who offered us a place in Haarlem. She is not in town in the moment, but she will return on Tuesday and then we will meet and see if Haarlem is our new home or not. Haarlem is around 30 minutes by sprinter train to Centraal Station, an easy commute in the morning. Is that our “final destination”?
Tuesday it is!
Indy’s BLOG – Second apartment tour!
Today Vil viewed five apartments, the first one was nice, but unfurnished, the second had too steep stairs I couldn’t walk, the third was just awful, the fourth was nice but a bit too expensive and the last one will maybe our new place. He placed an offer and now we need to wait for the response of the landlord. 1.425 Euro for a ground floor apartment with around 45 square meters. BOAH, that’s serious money!
!WaitBark!
Indy’s BLOG – First apartment viewing! WTF?!
2night we viewed an apparent in city center. 1.375 Euros for around 50 square meter, exclusive bills. The catch? There is always a catch and here it is: “The owner’s cat will stay in the house.” WTF?! No good for us. WASTE OF OUR F****ING TIME!
Indy’s BLOG – Guest House Amsterdam
They put us in a wonderful, high standard, totally overpriced guest house, but we need to buy the toilet paper ourselves. The cutlery, plates and cups are the cheapest IKEA one and the ONE pot, the ONE pan are even cheaper supermarket stuff. Fully service is something different.
And they paid an unbelievable 150.- Euro a day to the rental agency.
In a retrospective it was completely nonsense to put us in such a house. We didn’t wanted that and the relocation agency was aware of it. We explicitly asked for a small place with dog, nothing else. Come on, we slept the last weeks on the floor of a Yoga Studio. We don’t need that…. We need food, money for the ticket and medicine.
Indy’s BLOG – On the road….
There are still very nice people out there and we are happy to meet them. While living in Badalona we met Jack, Teresa and Miguel. Jack is Indy’s best friend and they are very nice people which didn’t hesitate to offer us a place to sleep when they heard that we are in trouble. We can sleep on the floor of their Yoga studio. This is no long term arrangement, only for a few days, but most important we are safe for the moment.
This week Vil needs to go to Amsterdam for an interview as Senior Digital Sales Consultant, another application is still open and after all that there is another interview for a homeworking position for a big american company.
All in all it looks quite promising, but we already know that we can’t rely on a feeling, so we expect the worst and hope for the best.
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Indy’s BLOG – Last Day Squatting – “Full programm…”
Well, this day was interesting. We were physically threatened, had the police in the house, made a official statement, packed all stuff and finally we are out of the house.
What would you do if three f*****ing gypsies standing in front of you and threatening you? I don’t want to be misunderstood, normally I am more then liberal and tolerant, I have absolutely no prejudices, but these guys where scum, the absolute worst and so we better left to avoid any stress or damage.
But we can’t accept something like this without any kind of response, so we called the police and they arrived within minutes. They told the “lying twat of owner” to open the door, so that we can pack the rest of our stuff in peace, but they told us that there is no way we can return into the house.
I never thought that we will move some day with a police escort. 🙂
Fortunately a very good friend lives nearby, we carried all our stuff to the place and we can stay there on the floor for a couple of nights, but nothing for long time.
Bark