Moving into a storage box

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This is it, I can't play around and escape to nice places anymore, I have a few days left to empty my apartment and it seems to me like a huge mountain to move.

This will not be a regular move from one apartment to another: I am moving to a storage box, downsizing as much as I can after 6 years of accumulation in the same place.

I have to admit it felt like the 4 most difficult days of my life. I never thought I would make it. So I got help, asked for more help, worked hard those 4 days and made it :-) Thank you to Audrey, Annie and Nysha for helping in such a tough task for me and especially my boyfriend Inayat for all the help in the last 3 days until late at night packing boxes and cleaning, I couldn't have made it without you! And also my awesome Dad who came all the way from Strasbourg to Basel to be there for the whole moving day!

Everthing I want or will need again if I come back after one year or more, it all managed to fit in 4,5m2! What a relief!

July 31st, I handed over my keys. Mix between sadness and grief of a beautiful time in this apartment and in Basel - and liberation, now free to go explore the world and finally start my trip!

My life packed in 4,5m2

Panic moment a few hours before the movers arrive and still lots of things to sort!

Sorting out books and still enjoying the beautiful tree and sun from my bedroom window



Location: Basel, Switzerland

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