Boulder to London

After two weeks of searching and negotiating, Melisse finally found us a place to live.  Our offer was accepted on Friday of last week, and we were able to move in this past Thursday.  The place is incredible!  It’s a nice 1 bedroom flat in a beautiful neighborhood in SW London.  My commute to work [...]

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So it appears that we are the “quite unlucky” according to Johnny.  At this point we have made unsuccessful bids on four places.  Needless to say we are a bit discouraged.  I’d go into more detail, but that may cause me to drink excessively on a Tuesday night which is something I tried to give [...]

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Our final week back in the states was “brilliant” as they say over here.  We’d like to send thanks to Shannon for hosting a wonderful send off at her place, Maggie, HJ and brother Jim for putting us up for the week and everyone else that stopped by, met us for drinks, had us over [...]

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So we arrived in London almost a week ago.  We spent the first few days getting over the jet lag, or maybe we were just recovering from a solid month on the road.  We couldn’t view properties on Monday because apparently it takes a day to set up properties to view and if you do [...]

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I should have done a full posting on each of these locations as Melisse and I had a great time traveling across the US and visiting with friends and family before we left.  Unfortunately, I haven’t kept up on things so here is the abridged version of the past month…
Melisse’s last day of work was [...]

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A lot has happened since my last post.  Probably the most significant is that Melisse applied to and has been accepted by The Art Academy in London.  Her talents have now officially been recognized by the international art community.  The school is a three year program that focuses on developing professional artists.  She will be [...]

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Several months ago I looked over at Melisse and announced “don’t make any plans for the summer, we might be in Europe”.  While I was serious, she looked at me, laughed out loud, and teased me for several minutes.  I wasn’t sure what I was going to do for the summer, but I was hoping [...]

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