They say it is better to have tried than failed and this is the case when it comes to the selling of my house. I must have picked the worst year in for a long time to try and sell it. This year in Australia there has been widespread flooding, including near my house in February although the house was not touched. However this was the catalyst for me to sell up and move on. My plans were to sell and move to Rockhampton to start a new chapter but things have not turned out as planned.
For the last couple of years the property prices have risen dramatically and the real estate put a value of half a million dollars on my home, I thought that will do me nicely thank you very much. And so it was done. Pictures were taken and the house was up for sale. Initially I had many people come to the open house days but that soon slowly lost momentum.
I reduced the price to what I thought was a more reasonable amount which attracted a few more folk but no one wanted to part with their cash just yet. Everyone told me, “You have a lovely home” and some asked me why I wanted to move and the response I gave was not a hundred percent true but it also was not a lie……..I wanted a change of scenery, but the other reason was that I wanted to move to higher ground and so I knew that it would be a hard sell as others would be looking at the house through the same lenses as me.
I’d fallen out of love with the house and just wanted to go somewhere, anywhere really. The costs involved to move were staggering and the sales tax on a new property were obscene. All up I would have forked put about $30,000.
A few weeks ago I started to implement plan B, which is to travel. The world has finally opened up and I have not travelled for nearly three years and I am champing at the bit to go somewhere. I had a big trip planned before I left China which was taking me through Egypt, Jordan, Greece and Turkey and so I have made plans to pick up where I have left off.
I leave on the 2nd of January and fly to Aswan via Cairo and Doha. I have already booked my hotel in Aswan and I am really looking forward to having an adventure which I have longed to do for decades. Egypt is right at the top of places I want to see. The world is becoming scarier each day and the cost of living is going through the roof and so I feel if I don’t go now then I might not get another opportunity.
Not looking forward to the flight. The first leg is 14 hours which is just crazy. I have a long wait in Cairo airport before my connecting flight to Aswan, it’s going to be an extremely long day indeed. However once I arrive I will be able to relax for a day before I visit Abu Simbel which if you don’t anything about it I suggest you do a Google and check it out or just click on the above link. This is just one of the wonders of a country where history is so embedded into the fabric of everyday life.
Oh and I have taken the house off the market, it’s obviously not the right time to sell and honestly I can’t be arsed with packing up and moving any time soon, it will happen but not just yet. And I’m sick of always having the place tidy just in case someone might want to have a swatch at the hoose.