Meeting Hervè

Arranged a meeting for today with Hervè to discuss several points about the chalet. I congratulated him on getting all but 2 of the windows in and he presented me with a bill, 20 grand ! Those are some expensive windows.

Hervè also gave me a tax bill for 4500 for 2 years tax, lovely. Thanks. Apparently the tax people have been trying to track me down at various addresses in Switzerland and eventually resorted to sending the bill to Hervè to forward to me.

Hervè says:
The roof will be done by the end of June
The chimney will be done by the end of June
The gutters and downpipes will be done by the end of June
The insulation and the internal T&G will be done by the end of June.
The backfilling will be done by the end of May
The earth cable will be put in before the backfilling
A temporary electric supply will be established
The water situation will be resolved and I will get a tap and meter installed.

So all in all There should be a fair amount of activity in the next few months.

Rob requested the backfilling be done as soon as possible as he has guests coming. Well Hervè phoned the builder and apparently the builder van do it in the next couple of weeks. I will be amazed if it is done but we shall try. I will write an email to Hervè outlining the points we made and the dates he said things would happen.

This trip was the first in our new car. It went great. Ohmri accompanied me and we drove from Zürich to Morzine. I figured that if I was going to spend any time in Morzine then I was going to need a car of my own rather than rent each time. Originally I was going to get some pick up type vehicle or a 4x4. The new Nissan pick up looked good we could even put the kids in the rear seats. Problem was the rear seats are OK but not for any distance. So the pick up idea was reluctantly shelved and we ended up looking at Renault Espace. Big car roomy comfortable and all the seats come out so it sort of turns into a van when required. So we bought one.

Didn't really get a whole lot done on this trip but fixed down the cables a bit more. Ohmri got ill and we left for home on Saturday afternoon about 15.30 got home at 19.30 so 4 hours door to door, going over the Col du Corbier (a lovely switchback of a road that climbs a pass and is real wiggly) and that was with a twenty minute rest stop. So I am pleased. It went well and we will do it again soon as I have arranged to meet up with Rob at the end of the month.

Now to see if I have any money to pay these bills.....