My TasteVin in Switzerland

The official date is set, Feb 25th 2010. Around forty odd days to go and wow there is a lot of stuff to do. Correction a lot of decisions to do, then a lot of stuff. To begin: What gets sold, what gets put into storage and what comes with us. All the electronics are naturally getting sold, because the volts/amps is completely different…. did I mention there is a lot of stuff?
This Sunday the wife and I are off to Switzerland to do a little recon. Finding an apartment or at least an area of the city we want to live in, a school for the little one, look for nearby furniture, electronic, hardware stores, and if I have sometime check out nearby saltwater fish store. It has been a fun hobby of mine over the last three odd years and its a little weird breaking simple habits of ie feeding the fish now that my tank has been broken down. I’ve offered my set up to my father and this gives me more than a little joy. He had a freshwater tank for years until his three boys came along. Not naming any names but at least one of us fried the tank by accidentally cranking the heat up. Little boys, lots of knobs, fish, sounds a little like nitro and glycerin getting together. By the second time the tankus was interuptus he gave up, though always did desired a saltwater/reef tank. Unfortunately he always thought they were expensive/hard to maintain… And thirty years ago he would be right. Now with advances in technology and with my set up he can start one. And we come full circle, with the son bringing the father back into the hobby.