12 days left ...

Shockingly, my previous post dates back to July last year, and that's not (entirely) due to me being lazy. I take it as evidence of me being frantically busy with a lot of things, in particular my upcoming move to the ifgi, which I am very excited about and which is now only 12 days away. Over the last couple of weeks, I've been organising various things to make sure my move does not leave utter chaos in its trail. Besides the work related aspects, there is also the matter of actually moving from the UK to Germany. Not that I would classify myself as some sort of urban/global nomad (my last inter-country move was eight years ago) but it is surprising to see how tricky it can be to move from one country to another (even if it's just within the EU). There are plenty of issues such as one organisation in one country requiring a particular document prior to be able to do something, which no organisation in the other country can issue. Or, needing an address to do X but having to have X before being able to register at an address. Given that these kinds of moves (from one country to another) must be more common these days, I don't find much has improved since I left Germany eight years ago. It is also quite frustrating to see that there still isn't any decent mobile phone provider that covers all of Europe - despite most of the big ones being active in most countries. There must be plenty of people who'd buy into a decent pan-European plan. Bring on the virtual SIM cards ;)