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The end of my first week - 08 Mar 2008
Well a week has gone by and we are settled in and things seem to be good so far. The weather has not been too good quite cold and a lot of rain (but I don’t mind that as I get to wond them up about terrible German weather!). Staying at Nicole’s parents is quite [...]
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Setting the scene here – the food - 02 Mar 2008
OK – so we are getting settled – when the weather is better I will take some pictures of the house, the village and the valley. Talking of the weather – whenever I visit here, someone normally mentions the bad weather in the UK, which always winds me up as in my mind it is [...]
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Phase 1 is complete – we have left the UK - 01 Mar 2008
Yesterday we left the house, Milton Keynes and England – and after a 11 hour journey we arrived in Serrig, Germany – the village Nicole grew up in. We loaded everything we own – yes everything into our lovely green van (The Big Green Monster) and left. Luckily we got some help from Jon, Vicki, [...]
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Decluttering our lives - 14 Jan 2008
One of our aims in moving to Valencia is that we are much more flexible in being able to move the next time we want to move. We have managed to amass so much stuff so far in our lives and we want to get rid of a load of the clutter and just be [...]
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Merry Christmas from Valencia - 25 Dec 2007
Here is a little video we shot on the beach when the weather was not so good on Sunday:
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First impressions of Valencia / Spain - 23 Dec 2007
So we arrived two days ago and I guess it worth talking about my first impressions of this part of Spain. First of all the airport – we landed through cloud and fog and then they had to park the plane for a few minutes. The pilot announced that unfortunately there was still a plane [...]
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So the news is out – we are leaving the UK! - 21 Dec 2007
We have been talking about it for a while and now we have decided to just do it! The excitement and the speculation that lasted for months earlier this year about whether we might get an opportunity to go to Stuttgart with Nicole’s work and then disappointment of the eventual bad news that the deal [...]
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