I moved out of the Hotel on Friday, and I'm staying with Peter for a few days while I finish finding a place to live. I saw three places yesterday: The first one was ok, The second one was unfurnished, had a long commute, and wouldn't be ready for at least a week (they were still doing construction while I was there). But the third one I really liked. It had the biggest bedrooms of all the places I've see since the first one that I didn't want. It's on a very quiet street, in a nice neighborhood, with a family with kids next door and behind us. It's a decent commute, though door to door, it might be 30-40 minutes. Not bad since my walk was 20-30 minutes from the hotel. Here's a picture of the front:
I traveled all over London yesterday, and took the Tube, the DLR (Dockland Light Rail), the Southern Overland Train (very nice train) and a bus. Friday night, Peter and I took a taxi for a bit with my suitcases. Apparently there is a tram kind of thing in one other part of London, and when I've ridden that, I'll have used every form of transportation there is in London.
After all my househunting, last night Peter and I saw the Bourne Ultimatum at the local cineplex. There's a good bit of a chase scene in London at the Waterloo Tube station. That was fun to see that in a movie, since we're right here in London.
This morning I went to CCW again. I got a picture of Alwyn as he and the drummer were doing a sound check...
After church, I went back over to our potential neighborhood to hang out and get a feel for the place. It felt great there. It was quiet and peaceful. There is a famous Victorian cemetery there, and 5 primary schools. You can read about Nunhead on Wikipedia
Then I took a couple of buses and the DLR back to Peter's and here I am.
Dave
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