Harry Potter Studio Tour

WRITTEN BY Julie

The Harry Potter Studio Tour outside of London is a must for any true and dedicated fan of wizardry and witchcraft. While tickets can be hard to come by, if not planned for well in advance, my diligent youngest...

12.17.13

Reflections – Three Months In

WRITTEN BY Julie

Our three month anniversary as London residents is rapidly approaching – Christmas Eve, in fact. On one hand, I can’t believe that three months have gone by so quickly. On the other hand, thinking back on our...

12.15.13

Do Numbers Matter? A Second Perspective

WRITTEN BY Julie

I was just reading Drew’s post about country counting and the value of travel experiences. I’m not sure he came down strongly on one side of the debate, enjoying a passport stamp just as much as I do, but...

11.29.13

A Day in Vienna

WRITTEN BY Julie

Drew and I are spending our Thanksgiving weekend exploring Bratislava, Slovakia and it’s much prettier neighbour, Vienna, Austria. While we write drafts of posts for later (we’re not sure the deal with...

11.25.13

Too Old to Have a Birthday Week

WRITTEN BY Julie

I think the concept of ‘birthday week’ was ruled out around age 10. Or, maybe, in our house where birthdays were sacred, age 14 was the end to the weeklong celebration. When you grow up as part of a...

11.21.13

A Family Christmas in London

WRITTEN BY Julie

This Christmas we will be welcoming a load of visitors to London to celebrate a proper British Christmas. We are thrilled to have visitors, and cannot wait to show off our new city (and our seemingly effortless sense...

11.16.13

Expat 101: The Paperwork Avalanche

WRITTEN BY Julie

When we made the decision this summer to become expats in the UK, the process seemed easy enough (we live in a global world, millions of people have done this before us, any potential difficulties would have been ironed...

11.15.13

Finding Our London Home

WRITTEN BY Julie

In August, after spending lots of time and energy doing apartment research on our own, communicating our wants/needs to the local agents and then finally spending a day seeing 15 flats, we were happy to find a place to...