That made perfect sense Stuart, are you ill?
It's fundamentally important to get out there, get stuck in and get bartering.
What is this nonsense about personal shoppers? Sure, if you can't come - all agents (including ourselves) will do your furniture purchasing for you. But why if you are coming would you do that?
If we let people choose our furniture, decide where is the best place to eat, choose from the menu for us, tell us which taxi driver to use, then CBF is finished.
It is precisely the tales of adventure, misunderstanding, negotiation, unexpected kindness and stupidity that make our forum a nest of fantastic anecdotes.
Apart from that, what I really can never grasp is that as a nation, we move around from property to property, dragging our possessions with us - then when we invest in our dream home abroad, we totally miss the opportunity of the blank canvas - possibly our first ever?
I paid over the odds for many things, I negotiated great deals on others, I drank cay for hours and saved 20p on a £80 rug, but I did it all and loved the stories it gave me to tell.
Personal shoppers? Second only to the "professional snaggers" I read about recently.
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to go out, furnish your apartment through trial and error, and come back and tell us all the experiences and stories you collected along the way.
