Monday, June 14, 2010
Tomorrow will be three weeks since I moved to London. Here are some impressions about the city:
- Accommodation: if it's not terrible - it's good.
- Culture: Tate Modern - very impressive. Science Museum - very conservative (comparing to Bremen's science museum). Most museums are for free! Waterstone's at Picadilly - Europe's largest bookstore. Seven stores filled with books makes it really hard to choose one if you are not sure what you are looking for.
- Camden market: full of people, some nice things if you look carefully, nice bookstore (used books), tempting smells of food, a very nice and a very expensive fashion store.
- Job hunt: everyone's extremely professional, very polite. IT job market is quite active, recovering from crisis.
- Architecture: very diverse. I've noticed some very cosy houses very close to the center (East from the Tower Bridge), with big balconies or terraces, gardens. There are some amazing places to live in London (accompanied by even more amazing prices I guess).
- Language: getting used to the British accent.
- Sports: climbing gyms are still to be visited in the future (including The Castle and The Arch, which is a walking distance from where I live!). As for now I just went to boulder to one of the two parks which have a boulder each. Massive boulders were moved there several years ago (check out the youtube video below). A bit scary to boulder there without a crashpad.
- General feeling: fantastic!
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