We’ve been back in New Zealand almost a year now. In a few days, it will have been a whole year since we left Cambridge. Time has just *flown* by,…

So for those of you that didn’t know, back in July le Tour de France had three stages in the UK before heading to France. The Tour started in York…

Our friend Richard introduced us to Sloe Gin – a sweet syrupy after-dinner drink that’s made from sloes and gin. Now, we didn’t know what sloes were, but we have…

There’s this famous street graffiti artist who makes his graffiti out of ceramic tiles. It makes his work quite distinctive and its often photographed and recorded. We haven’t seen any…

Merry Christmas everyone! We’ve been in London the past week for Christmas, and we’ll tell you all about that soon. We were tragically disappointed that it didn’t snow *during* Christmas,…

One thing we got from our 3 day weekend was that it was getting *cold* in England. It was the coldest November on record, apparently. I say apparently, because we…

We’ve mentioned before that Rob has a 45 minute commute to work (1.5hrs return) every day of the week. Previously, he had been paying petrol money to a coworker, but…

Aparently the last Harry Potter post sent out had bad links to images. My apologies! I’ve fixed all the image links you can see the post again – with the…

Piece by piece we’ve been buying furniture and either carrying or cycling it home, with the one exception being the couch. A couple of weeks ago, we made out final…

A few weeks ago, Rob’s mum sent us a wee care package. You see, it’s cold here. Like, much colder than we expected. It’s not even winter yet! So, we…

Similar to home, they let farmers put their cattle in public parks. Either that or the land is owned by farmers, and people are allowed through it. Regardless, on a…

It’s been getting cold in Cambridge. And its started to rain a lot. When I say rain, I mean drizzle. It likes to drizzle here. So, a couple of weekends…

We love our house. But. Our house has no cupboards, except the kitchen. So, there’s no cupboards for linen; no cupboards for electrical cables; no cupbaords for sports gear… No…

We’re still setting up house. Because we’ve been buying furniture from Argos, its all flat packed.We still don’t have a car so transport is a bit fun… Its nice to…

As a farewell for Stewart and Amanda, Rob made pancakes and bananas for breakfast. Yum! He decided to be fancy and do banana flambe. Bring on the flame! But first,…

Our little street is a nice one. A no exit one, which makes it quiet. Just big long rows of terraced houses, all probably exactly the same size as ours.…

It’s summer over here and the days are quite long with sunset at 8pm or so. Seems like a good excuse to make use of our newly tidied garden. We…

After we bought that table and chairs, the other thing we got straight into was buying plates and cutlery, pots and pans. This series of shots basically shows you our…

It took us a while to find. The market is very competitive here. Just renting, not buying. But for now, it’s ours. And we’re so thrilled… However, my first half…

For the first month we were in Cambridge, we stayed at 3 different accomodation places. Firsly, was the self-service apartment in town. We loved this for its location, but thought…