My name is Alexander. I was born in the south of Germany but used to live in Cologne for almost the last decade. My hobbies are first of all Cologne Carnival but also moderne architecture and visiting England. As my employer has offered me the possibility to work in London for two years, I was happy to do so. And here we are. That was the reason for starting this blog...
Follower of our blog may remember that we unsuccessfully planed to see a ballet on Valentine’s Day (see blog entry of 14 Feb). Just to let you, we finally enjoyed the ballet on 14 March. This Blog entry, however, is not about the ballet but about British Theatre Habits. Firstly, Brits do eat in an ordinary theatre … More British Theatre Habits
Getting a National Insurance Number – or just NINo – is an important task for settling in the UK. To some reason, I was accidently thinking that my employer would organise the NINo for me. Especially as I have not yet received any reminder for providing the NINo. But after my February payslip has not … More Getting a National Insurance Number
Two friends and former neighbours of us have started a charity project, we are excited about. The project is part of a programme of Terre des hommes called “how far would you go”. Terres des hommes is an organisation that collects donations to finance the school visit of children in poorer parts of this world. … More Please support this Charity
What is British culture? If that question is raised, one would probably think about Shakespeare, some also about Jane Austin :J . But British culture is also Pantomime; or just Panto. “Panto…what?”, you might ask yourself, which is exactly the reaction I had. But it turned out to be fun and quite a bit like … More PwC Pantomime
Always good to know: Kunkel translates into English as “Tuntel”.
This is the first of probably many blog entries that deal with English language and our lessons learned. The first funny story happend just yesterday when I was working from home. In order to inform my team of my absence from the office and of my reachability at home, I wrote a short email to … More English lessons – session 1
To start with: I have been so naive, when I have thought there wouldn’t be much differences between the UK and Germany. Although the differences might be smaller than to other countries in the world, they are still significant. Not yet arrived, I had my first cultural shock when dealing with call centers. Getting things … More First cultural shock
What will the housing market be in London? So much heard about, but not sure how reliable the information was. What turned out to be true was that the prices where about four times as high as in Cologne (of course depending on the location). Starting without any experience with the London housing market, we … More Property viewings
Although we were thinking about living and working in London earlier, it was in spring 2016 when the journey has began. I met this guy one night in Noordwijk in the Netherlands on a training of my employer. After he has found out that I was from Germany, Stuart told that he was to start … More How everything began…
Two years in London 