Work is going great. We're completely settled in our new offices and the new setup for reception has meant that I have a lot more interaction with my coworkers. We've also all gone out for drinks a few times lately too. Free drinks = awesomeness.
My coworker Catriona (who I worked closely with and was probably the closest in age to) has left for better prospects, which had me worried at first about her replacement. But the Australian girl they replaced her with (Meryl) is really cool, and it turns out that she literally lives right around the corner from me! Jen and I have been hanging out with her and her roommate pretty often. It's nice having friends living nearby. :-)
I'm going to Paris this weekend since my friend Connie will be starting her post-London tour of Europe there. I'll be scoping things out in preparation for taking my family there in March. I'm really excited to take the Eurostar. I love the trains here! And it will be so much faster than flying.
I'm currently trying to plan trips to Amsterdam in February and Edinburgh in March. I need to do a lot more research to figure out what this will cost me...
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Friday, 11 January 2008
... in a new place
Our lease at our old room ends on the 12th (tomorrow), and we had told our landlord before we left to go home for Christmas that we might want a few extra weeks so we could find a new place. Our landlord told us we would work out everything when we got back. Well, his idea of working everything out turned out to be texting us 9 days before the lease's end telling us he signed a lease with someone else starting on the 12th. I panicked for a while and then called the long-term hostel I had looked at before we left to go home. Fortunately, they had one room available that Sunday. I moved in that day, and Jen moved in the next.
So now I live near Gloucester Road station, all the way on the other side of town in South Kensington. It's a REALLY cool area- it has the classic huge white row-houses (which are really mansions), and there's a bunch of hotels and restaurants surrounding the Tube station which is only a two minute's walk from the hostel. And our room is huge- it has 12-foot ceilings with crown mouldings and this cool medallion in the middle of the ceiling. Very London. I'm pretty happy with the move. Even though it's much further from my job, it only lengthened my commute by about 5 minutes and now I actually feel like I'm living in London. Our old neighborhood was alright, but it's just not the same. South Kensington is actually an area I want to hang out in. The Natural History Museum, Harrods, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Royal Albert Hall, and Hyde Park are only a short walk from here. Yay :-)
So now I live near Gloucester Road station, all the way on the other side of town in South Kensington. It's a REALLY cool area- it has the classic huge white row-houses (which are really mansions), and there's a bunch of hotels and restaurants surrounding the Tube station which is only a two minute's walk from the hostel. And our room is huge- it has 12-foot ceilings with crown mouldings and this cool medallion in the middle of the ceiling. Very London. I'm pretty happy with the move. Even though it's much further from my job, it only lengthened my commute by about 5 minutes and now I actually feel like I'm living in London. Our old neighborhood was alright, but it's just not the same. South Kensington is actually an area I want to hang out in. The Natural History Museum, Harrods, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Royal Albert Hall, and Hyde Park are only a short walk from here. Yay :-)
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