Saturday, December 31, 2005

Car Trouble

Yesterday, we bought our first tank of gas since buying the car! Woohoo! 52 CHF for half a tank. Doh. Gas certainly ain't subsidised here. The temp was -9 degC, we pulled up to the pump and Walter got the gas. He found a window squeegee in a bucket, pulled it out of the ice and set about cleaning the window. As soon as he did, all the water froze. He ended up cleaning the window off with our heavy duty ice scraper (required by Swiss law). Today, it's +5deg C and raining on the 5 inches of snow that fell last night. Tomorow, we'll probably have a hurricane.....
My mum and dad arrive tonight, just in time to see in the New Year in our new home. We'll be toasting all our friends and family around the world :)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

can you rent a garage to store the car in?

Yodelemma said...

Actually, we have covered parking, so the ice isn't bad at all on the car. The snow gets blown on to it though. We rely on Toby to eat it all ;)