Big Adventures, Little World

After nearly 12 months since arriving in London, it was about time for a change. That change happened to be moving to a different house. For all of us we all had different directions we wanted to go in so we decided not to renew the lease to the house and all go our separate ways. There wasn’t anything wrong with the house at all, and Southfields was quite a nice and safe area, but it was just so, boring. There was never really anything happening there and even just to get to some decent shops we would need to get on the bus or tube and this is one of the main reasons we wanted to move somewhere else.

Elese and I had thought about it a bit and after going out in Clapham one day we thought that we might like to live around there. We eventually started to look for places to live as it closer to the end of our lease and all we could find seemed to be quite expensive. We kept looking though, and after checking out a place in Balham (not too far from Clapham) we then found a place in Brixton (also not too far from Clapham) to have a look at. I went to have a look at it one night and really liked it. Sharing with a few other people, but also a few more rooms to fill, and the landlord seemed good too. The house was a 3-storey town house on a nice little street where all the buildings where pretty much the same, and it wasn’t too far from Brixton tube station and only a couple of minutes more to Stockwell and Clapham North station too, so we were around there area we wanted to be. The room was a big double room with an ensuite which was a massive bonus. The place had a big kitchen and even a small backyard which was perfect for barbecuing. It was great! I went home and told Elese about and organised for her to go see the place the next day before work and after seeing it, she loved it too.

It wasn’t too long after that and we were packing up the old house and getting organised so we could make the move to the new place. We didn’t think we had too much stuff, but it turns out we had a lot more and ended up getting a man and a van to help us out. What a great concept! It was Sunday the 24^th and we started and finished moving everything we had acquired over the past 12 months to the new room and got all settled in. We went back to the old place to finish the moving and then went out for a bit to eat before heading back for our first night in the new place. We are both really happy with the place and the people too. We have a lot more room than we did before and a lot of room for people to come stay (hint hint) as well as a roof cavity for storage for all our crap. All in all it’s a pretty cool place and there is a lot more to see and do and give us better access to Central London so we can go wherever we please whenever.