One last Swiss issue

Leaving Switzerland went very smoothly. As long as you followed the rules of course and did everything the correct way. I found out that a month before you leave you can get a "Webzugsmeldung" from your Gemeinde. This piece of paper says that you are leaving Switzerland on the date you tell them you will be leaving and it states where you are moving to, in our case England. Very simple.

Then you can send copies of this piece of paper to end all services like household and medical insurance and internet subscription, etc. You then don't have to give the usual three month notice because they will not charge you if you are no longer going to be in the country. And they even return any extra money you have paid in advance very quickly into your account. 

Cablecom (internet) and Winterthur (where we had our household insurance) quickly got back to us confirming the cancelations. Sana24, our medical insurance, didn't get back to us. Silly of us, we assumed they got our letter of cancelation and everything will be fine. We should have phoned them to confirm and I kept saying we must but we never did. Now I just noticed they have debited Andre's account for another month's subscription. Annoying! 

I have to now try and fix it from here. I don't have any of our insurance papers with me as the file is packed in a box and the website does not give an email address so I have filled out the contact sheet and hope they will reply. Luckily I still have a copy of the original letter I sent them. 

Let's hope this gets sorted out quickly and easily.

Back in England...

I have just registered with a website called mysupermarket. Here you can shop for groceries online and compare prices of different grocery stores. So that's what I'm doing now, seeing which store will be the best to shop at. Exciting stuff!