TwoExpats

Our good friend Mattia is going to be in London for a week in mid-August, ad he would like to spend as much of his time as he possibly can going around and taking pictures. He’d like to shoot “off-the-beaten-track” areas, life and people and, considering I’m not a photographer myself, I thought I could [...]

Image by kevindean via Flickr Yep, the saga is not over. First chapter is here, if you fancy. We were hoping for the situation to be finally solved. We were wrong. We were told the TalkTalk account was now in our name, and that we were to be sent a bill on April 18th. We [...]

We moved in the flat on December 30th last year. Today is the 12th of April, and the TalkTalk account that was here before and used by the previous tenants *should* be transferred in our name within 48 hours. So let’s assume the 14th of April. Now count. That’s 106 days. 106 days to complete [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 in [...]

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 [...]