... 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 :-)