Moving to London

Well, the time has come that we can announce on the blog. We are moving to London. Many reasons have resulted in our choice to move to London. One main one being that living in the Medway isn't quite providing us with the adventure we had hoped. We will be sad to leave some amazing new friends at work- but know that we will keep in touch with those who want to keep in touch with us. Personally I am a little bit sad about leaving some of the students behind. Many of them of course will cheer when they find out we are not returning, but there are always a small few who worked hard and made the worst days just a little bit okay.

So, we are moving to North London- to an area called Stoke Newington. It is a really hip and up and coming part of town, that feels much more like home and we have only visited a couple of times. The apartment we have secured is in the old Council Housing buildings in the area, however they are now mostly all privately owned. There are families EVERYWHERE and parks and playgrounds. A 11 minute bus ride away from the Tube on the Victoria line, which takes us right into the centre of London within minutes (also approximately 16 minutes to get to Victoria Station to buy my day of Wicked and Billy Elliot tickets EVERY DAY). It's a two bedroom that has a water closet (meaning the toilet is in an actual closet, and the bathtub and sink are separate), it's all furnished and it even has a sweet little patio out front. Ben can't wait to find a little camping bar-b-q and when it's nice out make some burgers on the deck. Right now they are repainting and cleaning the whole place, so when Connor moves us in on the 15th (while we are in Zurich) it will be all fresh and new.

While preparing to move and change our lives has not been easy, we are hoping it will be for the best. We want to look back on this year being a big exciting time for us. And we are doing what we can to make that happen.