Nov 27th, 2006
Weekends are back! For a while I had forgotten the distinction placed on the days starting with S – 3 months travelling blurs the days into one a little. If our first Glasgow weekend is anything to go by it should be a fun place to hang out for a while.
Saturday morning we went shopping [...]
Nov 23rd, 2006
The journey is over (almost anyway)! Chhay & I have both accepted a position at jm architects in Glasgow. Farewell sweet days of unplanned lesiure & welcome back the 40 hour week – it should be fun
Our next project is finding somewhere to live – not knowing if we were going to be [...]
Nov 17th, 2006
It has been a hectic couple of weeks of interviews, and long walks in the crisp Edinburgh weather. After teasing us us with 2 weeks of beautiful clear weather the rain has well and truly arrived the last few days and if the free metro paper is to be believed (generally not) tommorrow’s maximum is [...]
Nov 6th, 2006
I’m writing this post from the top room of a beautiful old Edinburgh house, with strains of piano from the owner drifting in. The house is quite a good representation of professional migration to the UK – a brace of Australians, a Polish couple and a Spaniard (with a broad Scottish accent which is a [...]
Nov 3rd, 2006
Thats right folks, indeed I am. Beautiful crisp (12 degree) days since we’ve been here and clear blue skies have made wandering around very pleasant (just don’t forget your scarves, beanies, umbrella just in case…I am going to lose so many things in the northern hemisphere!)
I have another interview in Edinburgh next week, and as [...]
Nov 2nd, 2006
Finally made it to Glasgow! Arrived this afternoon, the real world close on our heals. We have a few applications in to firms in Glasgow, and an interview with an excellent firm in Edinburgh. Slight nervousness beginning to creep into the pit of my stomach at least & I think that Chhay is in the [...]