A Year to Date: London 2012

This weekend just gone we were lucky enough to be able to go to the Anniversary Games in the Olympic Stadium in London. A year ago this week we were in London on holiday to experience an amazing two weeks at the London 2012 games. Who would have guessed that exactly a year later we would be back in London, but now as residents, and back in Stratford, living mere minutes away from the stadium itself.

On a post in a former blog incarnation, we detailed our trip – which if you know us, you know is always going to be heavily surrounded by food. Here’s what we saw and what we ate, a year on and reproduced for this blog. The places we ate and things we seen are unlikely to change over the next few years so this is a nice look back for us but still completely relevant for those living and visiting London.

Moving To London – How We Did It.

For the past few weeks and months we have been compiling the ideas, steps and struggles we have gone through trying to set up a new life across the pond in London. We thought it necessary to share our story in the hopes that it may give piece of mind and interest to others planning on doing the same.

This is just how we went about things and is in no way a declaration of how things must be done, but more an offering of one (tried and tested) path to go about things.

Wishbone, Brixton Village Arcade

If you’ve been keeping up with our London living situation so far, you already know that we have moved to the east end, after a brief yet brilliant stay in the south west. But a few administrative duties beckoned us back to the other side of the city, and we happily took this as a chance to float around and continue to explore our brief southern stomping ground.

DUB – LDN (Part 2)

(Part 2 of 2)

From the moment we arrived in London, our hosts (Patrick’s sister, Lauren, and  her boyfriend, Ian) continued to suggest one particular pizza place in the vicinity which we had to try. Bravi Ragazzi looks and feels like a traditional, family style pizzeria that has been updated to fit comfortably into a trendy south London suburb. Stone baked pizzas, freshly made to eat in or take away, are their speciality and are churned out from their tiny eatery just off Streatham High Street, SW16.

DUB – LDN (Part 1)

(Part 1 of 2)

At the start of the month we posted that the two of us have made a huge decision to wave goodbye to Dublin and pave a road to a brand new adventure in London. For various reasons since that date, we have been very silent – as you may have noticed. The main reason is that for the first week we were living out of suitcases, trying to get the basics established from a new base. That included the usual errands of organising bank accounts, National Insurance Numbers, phones, and most importantly scouting a brand new home.

A Change of Scenery

You may have noticed lately that we have been quieter than we are usually. There has been a very good reason for this. All is well with us GastroGays, don’t you worry. Things have just changed.