Arrival

We’re here! We arrived on Sunday afternoon, 17 bags in tow. A little tired, but very excited about starting this adventure in London. We spent part of our first night, last night, in a pub watching Arsenal! (Somehow life is not too different – Sundays watching football.)

Our schedule:
-Hotel until Wednesday.

-Corporate Housing: Wednesday, January 31st through February 28th, at the Nell Gwynn House, in Chelsea. You can get an idea of what the apartments/rooms look like here: http://www.londonservicedapartments.co.uk/economy/nell-gwynn-house.htm. (Rumor has it, they are so small, you can turn the tv in the “living room” off with your big toe from the bedroom.)

-After March 1, we’ll will have found an apartment and will spend the next few weeks looking for one mainly in Marylebone: http://www.marylebonevillage.com/index.cfm/pcms/site.home/.

We are reachable via our current cell phone numbers, (we’ll have to change numbers at some point,) and of course email, - I hope to start writing about this experience and will send a link soon.

The move was filled with many stories of people showing us great kindness. From the moving company going through each of our just-packed boxes looking for the inadvertently packed brand-new laptop, to the wine shipping store staying open after they normally closed as we rushed up to Napa with 15 cases that needed to get to their new home in Florida, to the French Laundry accommodating us as we scrambled and failed to find two other people to join us in last-minute reservations.

We closed the door on the house, thinking of all the wonderful moments we had there, starting with the rehearsal dinner, and ending with both of our parents celebrating Thanksgiving with us – the house, and San Francisco have brought us a lot of joy – and we cannot wait to experience London and the travels we will do from here!

Much love!
-Rachel (and TJ)