Posted by Eric | Posted in living abroad | Posted on 08-04-2009
Light switches, separate hot/cold faucets, central heating, flat screen TV’s, low flush toilets and public trash bins. These are things that the Brits need to work on. So far those are my only gripes, well almost. The weather has been surprisingly mild. Yesterday I was hot, who whoulda thunk. We went on a mission to find a 2nd hand furniture store up the street yesterday afternoon. Walked for 20 min to find an empty store, bugger. But out of that journey we ended up in the “cool” part of town rather unexpectedly. No one told us this was even here. We found a organic healthy fluff store, the mother-load of clothing stores, and tons of cool local cafes. The area is huge too. I found my clothing store. I should have known that all the clothes I like are British and I should have come with the clothes on my back and bought everything here. In one store I found Ben Sherman, Fred Perry, Lindberg, G-Raw, Merc and Penguin. WTF… This place has been shear torture so far. Good clothes and old Land Rover Defender 110s everywhere. And the 110s aren’t $80k, they are cheap.
We went online shopping yesterday, which was a real task. We bought 2 desks, 2 chairs and a new bed frame from Ikea. £40 for delivery, ouch. But, I have no way of picking it all up so… £40 it is. But all that for £230. Not too shabby. We are working on a kitchen table with a bench seat at the moment. Not ideal, but there is internet and power so it will do for now.
Ikea Desk and Chair
new bed for us
We found a great little market called the Taj about 15min walk from here. They have good produce and all kinds of cool ethnic food. We tried to buy fish from the fishmonger yesterday, but we made a bad choice and got frozen swordfish. Was fishy. We have to get used to the local fishies. Plaice, haddock and mackerel.
It’s 4pm. The work day begins.