March 2011

Keep in Touch

March 31, 2011

My friend’s visit this week spoiled me. We spent most of this week strolling around Chelsea, frequenting our local pubs and restaurants, and visiting a couple key tourist spots (Stonehenge, London Eye, & Kensington Palace). Most of this week we spent our time catching up on the ins-and-outs of our daily lives. Hours spent just talking [...]

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An Eye for London

March 27, 2011

This weekend welcomed two of my favorite things to London: Daylight Savings and my dear friend Liz. First, let me say that British Summer Time makes me infinitely happy. The sun starts rising before 7am and won’t go down until 7:30pm – and the days just get longer. As the thermometer ticks upwards so too do my [...]

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London Baby! A Year Later

March 20, 2011

One year?  It feels longer in both good ways and bad ways. But, before I even get into my reflection of the last year, I have to thank the editor of this blog, my wife. Without you, I wouldn’t have made it here, so thank you. In truth, the bad was not really that bad. [...]

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Flat Upgrade

March 19, 2011

David and I struck gold – we have found a super landlord. He purchased our flat in 2004 (I found this out by searching online real estate public records), and his daughter lived here up until she relocated to New York. With the real estate market taking a dive in 2009/2010, he decided to rent [...]

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365

March 15, 2011

I’ve been thinking about reaching this milestone for some time, basically ever since arriving here some-365 days ago. Instead of feeling like a watershed day, Sunday (which was the technical one year marker) just felt like Sunday. I had envisioned myself uploading a reflective blog entry summarizing accomplishments and challenges and such, but this whole blog [...]

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Unsubscribe

March 10, 2011

I shared a recent comment thread with BetsyTransatlantically about an inevitable cut with the States: unsubscribing from my favorite US online retailers. For almost a year now, I’ve held onto these near daily emails from Banana Republic, Gap, Anthropologie, RueLaLa, Gilt, etc, etc. I convinced myself that I should hold on to the emails for the [...]

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House Hunters

March 6, 2011

Strolling through the streets of Central London, I’ve picked up a new (albeit nosy) habit. I find myself peering into the ground floor windows of the row houses that line the streets in our neighborhood. On our street, many of the row houses are still owned by a single family meaning that the lower ground [...]

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