{"id":5082,"date":"2018-04-14T09:12:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T09:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5082"},"modified":"2018-04-14T09:12:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T09:12:10","slug":"relocation-swiss-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5082","title":{"rendered":"Relocation – Swiss style"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our neighbours Jana and Andy are moving to an apartment up by the Park Hotel. It’s the usual ritual of filling boxes and crates with possessions, carrying everything downstairs, worrying about the cat etc etc.<\/p>\n

In the UK we would then wait for a big van to come and carry everything to the new house. Not here.<\/p>\n

The boxes, crates and everything else are stacked on a net in the garden.<\/p>\n

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Then we wait, eyes skyward.<\/p>\n

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Our ‘van’ appears over the house.<\/p>\n

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Our house is surrounded by obstacles like trees and hotels, so the line from the helicopter is 200 metres long. <\/p>\n

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As the pilot applies full power to lift the net the noise is deafening and a whirlwind hits the garden. <\/p>\n

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And off it goes. The new apartment is only about 400 metres away, and the entire operation took about 5 minutes.<\/p>\n

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