Flat Hunting

After a couple of days settling into our temporary pad, it was time to put on the realtor hat and go find our home for the next two years or so.

Luckily Kelly’s company set us up with a nice but very intense old Irish lady who took us around about 25 flats in two days. Suffice it to say, she knew how the London rental market game was played, and by Friday afternoon, we had narrowed it down to two choices: a nice conversion style on the first floor of an old townhouse up north near Hampstead (see above right), or a modern flat down by Tower Bridge (below) that offered big windows and plenty of light (and a king sized bed!). If that just sounded a little too Home & Garden for you, I apologize and you can blame my mother for that ;)

In the end, functionality and closet space won over charm and we decided the river was to be our home. (And yes Mom, I will have more pics of the place once we settle in).