In search of nirvana

Steve from Hertfordshire, who blogs at In search of Nirvana, will retire in Gozo in a few months time:

A brief reminder of my situation, I retire from the London Fire Brigade in March next year, when we will be moving to the Maltese Island of Gozo to live. Now I did not want to retire and then sell my UK house, I felt that this is a job to get out of the way well ahead of my leaving date. The house is duly sold, and we complete the sale on this coming Friday. So Gill and I needed to find rented accommodation for the remainder of our stay here in the UK.

Due to the circumstances that surrounded the sale (I won't bore you with the detail here) we only had 1 week to find a property to rent, subsequent visits to all the estate agents in the area to find a rental available immediately, only came up with 5 possibility's, we promptly viewed all 5, one of which we decided that we liked.

Following the viewings Gill and I went home to discuss what we had looked at, we were desperate and had only found one flat that we liked and if we could not find anywhere to live we would be homeless, desperation indeed, so first thing the following morning we called the agent to confirm that we would take the property that we looked at the previous day, the agent said he would contact the owner just to confirm that the flat was still available and would call me back...