First Week - Home Sweet Home!

After a few "issues" with Qantas and luggage we finally made our way to London via Singpore and Frankfurt, along with our 62kgs of luggage which we got on board for free.....pays to complain! Especially when you get an upgrade to a business sky bed seat for your longest 12 hour flight. Whoever said Qantas had bad customer service....*ahem*.

So I am now officially one week into my London experience. First job was finding a place to live (my generous brother kindly offered us the use of his spare room for a few days until we found something, although it quickly got crowded with our 62kgs worth of luggage!). We have opted for a share place as no leases necessary, although have found that it wasn't quite as easy as first thought. After having a non-response from one person after we'd looked and said we were interested, being one of about 15 groups of people to look at another, and spending 20 mins on the phone with an anal landlord who still wouldn't give me the address so we could have a look we were getting a little despondent. And this was all after spending hours and hours on websites checking places out, some of which you wouldn't want your worst enemy to have to live in.

Until my brother (finders fee on it's way!) checked out a new site and found us a fabulous place in Acton. We came to have a look and meet the housemates and were blown away. It's a fantastic 3 storey terrace house which has recently been completely redone inside so everything is high spec and brand new. Including the gourmet kitchen with built in coffee machine....I think I'm in heaven!! We have a great loft room with an ensuite which takes up the third floor with everything we could ever want. The people who own the place have the second floor with another couple on the first floor along with kitchen/lounge and even a lovely outside deck.

Our room (pre-62kgs luggage!).

The deck.

The fab kitchen.

So we are now finding our way around the area, supermarkets, newsagents, fruit and vegie and wine stores are close by, with loads of transport links. Including the bus to the giant Westfield in Shepherd's Bush.....yes we have already been :) And it's also close to Ealing to visit my brother and not too far from the Putney area where some friends live.

So with the living situation in hand, time to turn my attention to finding a job! Recruitment agencies here I come!