Decisions, Decisions

After a long and difficult debate, where wine flowed freely and negotiators used their most powerful means and skills of convincing we have come to a decision:

Emmanuelle will stay in the Netherlands for the months to come. Our agreement also stipulates that she shall willingly and sound of mind accompany me to Brisbane to do some reconnaissance. This basically means she'll tell me where I shall live in Brisbane. Which, by the way, is a good thing since she has good taste (She lived in a house on the beach in Barbados) and I don't (I've lived in a horrible apartment in Amersfoort).

Cool! I'm happy. Well not that I won't see her for soooo long. But this is the intelligent choice for her career and mine... Choice made. Negotiators happy. Sorted! as they say in Zimbabwe.