Our Bedrooms at Casa Babel
What Next?
There has been a need for us to adapt a lot as mealtimes are really different from those in the UK. For example, in restaurants lunch is around 14:00 in Marbella, but in Winterthur by that time the chef would be going home, as the Swiss have lunch around 11:30 to noon and then they close at 14:00. In Marbella lots of shops close at 14:00 to open again at 17:00 then they stay open till about 22:00. In Winterthur they close at 12:00 and start again at about 13:30, but then close at 18:30.
I was 79 when I completed this part and found it hard to believe that I was that old, whilst writing I had enjoyed looking back over the past, and it seems amazing that we left the UK so many years ago (the beginning of December 2002), but sadly during this period, both of my dear parents passed away. I am so glad we were able to be with them for many years.
Trudy's mother Josephine was still doing well at the grand age of ninety-eight, and at that time had only suffered a little from short term memory loss and some confusion.
Everyone imagines that we spent most of our time relaxing, but we seem to be so busy, and we hardly ever have time to just take things easy.
Apart from having done as much as we could for our parents, we have to take care of our own two properties, keep track of our bills, bank accounts and correspondence at each location.