TwoExpats

Hi everyone, this is the first of a series of “catching up” posts. We’ve been quiet on our end despite quite a few things happening in the last months. First things first: we moved house!
The reason
We wanted to leave the previous flat for quite some time, for a series of reasons. First of all, we [...]

As we had anticipated, we took some 5 days in Stockholm, taking advantage of some seriously cheap Ryanair flights.
View Gioia and Matteo’s Stockholm trip, November 2009 in a larger map
So what are our suggestions to fellow travellers to the Swedish capital city? Here they come.

We are joining Blog Action Day 2009 to help raise awareness on climate change. It might seem weird, given that this has been talked about for decades now, but there’s an awful lot to do to help our future children and their children live in a better world, and give ourselves a decent chance for [...]

With the Summer season hopefully not over yet, it’s time to picnic.
We have already introduced the picnic topic in the previous post about the Ray Davies gig at Kenwood House, Hampstead. We had prior committments during the day (namely: Tweetcamp) so we didn’t go there prepared. We do plan to go to Kenwood again though, [...]

Are you finding your way around London then? Are you a master of the Tube, a prophet of the buses? Even though you might have fallen in love with the public transport, this post might be of some interest to you.
In many cases, in fact, you could be better off trying other routes and means [...]

So how are your first days going? Found your accommodation in London? Sorted out stuff like bank account and National Insurance Number? We hope so… You could have well found a job in the meanwhile, and, unless you’re particularly lucky, you will need to commute to get to your work place. The transport system [...]

Managed to find your flat? We really hope so. (if you’re reading us from an internet cafe is fine too, been there, done that…).
Now, there are some things that you might want to know as soon as possible.
First of all, you might want to find out if bills are going to be in your name. [...]

You bought Loot, checked Gumtree, and wrote down potential candidates for you to call and, eventually, view the properties.
When we first came to London, we were told to call and ask straight away if the ad was from an agency, and, if so, say “No thanks” and not waste oru time any longer. We did [...]

18 months. One-and-a-half years.
That’s the time we’ve been living in London, and the ‘recurrence’ was last week. We didn’t do anything to celebrate it (I actually remembered about it just now!), but we should have. It seems a long time now that I think of it, but it’s like yesterday that first week…
Back then, we [...]