Okay, we have to admit it now: The title of this blog is probably not accurate anymore since we decided to leave London a year earlier than planned. Most of your friends and colleagues know already (or at least should know). We haven’t been quite as happy in London as we should have been. There … More Who mentioned something about „two years“…
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 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 