Simply impossible to believe, that it’s been no less than 6 months since we moved to England. It feels as if it happened yesterday, or actually centuries ago. We were so immerged in discovering our new life that we completely failed to keep a regular record of everything happening around, so time to make a short overview of the months passed.

Life

Apartment

First month in England we spent dealing with an eternal issue: finding an apartment. If only it was all. But having found one we spent 1 entire month to make it…livable (and one month more to…install internet).

Apartment Before and After

Work

Whereas Xavier is engaged as engineer on the construction of the new power plant in Wilton Site, I managed to find several students for French classes. Working with people is always much more fun than working with a computer, even if it is more demanding.

Power Plant engineer

Salsa

Never in our lives did we dance so much as we do here. Darlington every Tuesday, Voodoo café and amazing Salsa lessons. Such a luck to live in a country with so many festivals, workshops, international salsa events. It’s crazy.

Salsa Dance

Salsa Dance

Travels

The only thing we kept posting regularly. Yorkshire has much to offer, so even after half a year I can’t say that we explored at least a quarter of this marvellous region. Check out our posts about Staithes, Roseberry Topping, as well as Durham and Liverpool out of Yorkshire. Total failure to understand why so many English know so little about their own country and prefer travelling just somewhere “where the weather is good”.

York Castle, selfie

All the rest

Jogging and participating in ParkRuns, attending Saltburn Book Club, hosting through CouchSurfing and Airbnb, getting used to the right steering wheel and spending half of the life on the beach – you name it.

Saltburn-by-the-Sea

Saltburn-by-the-Sea

However, we had something very tragic happened. Xavier’s bicycle was stolen from our backyard. Heart broken, and humanity is disgusting, what else can I say?

Cliffs in England

Jogging in Park Run
Bookshop, Saltburn

So very English

Just a short list of conclusions about our new temporary “home”.

 No, it doesn’t rain all the time. However, what is much worse is the changes of atmospheric pressure. This is the thing, which can drive anyone mad, no doubt. Though, barbecue on the misty beach couldn’t be better.

English weather

What can happen within five minutes.

Barbecue in the mist, England

No one. NO ONE speaks BBC English. Just forget it.

 In England live the toughest people on the Earth. They walk undressed even in January.

 Don’t mess up with football.

Boro football fan

 Paperwork and Health & Safety bureaucratic procedures take three times as long as any action at all.

 The whole country is living on the charity of each other.

 The cultural shock was much less stronger in Estonia, than in England.

 Despite all the stereotypes, you can eat here very well, providing it’s not Fish’n’Chips.

Fish meal, England

 The country is beautiful, and I mean it. Still, we’ll be glad to leave it for various non-blog-disscusion reasons. No offence.

North York Moors National Park

Horseriding in Saltburn-by-the-Sea