After four years in Uganda, a small country in East Africa we decided to take the path less travelled and moved to the epitome of the developed world - London! When we told people where our home for the next couple of years will be....reactions ranged from amazement to shock to delight.
So we packed up four years of memories (and a lot of African artifacts!) in Kampala, boxed it up and shipped them all to India. Given the space constraints that London forces on its citizens, we decided to live the lean lifestyle. This meant cramming the must-haves of two adults and two children into 12 suitcases!! I'm proud to say that we did manage to do that. It was also an exercise in figuring out what is most important to us :-) So bags packed, visas in hand and over priced tickets booked.....we landed in the middle of what was touted as the coldest winter in 70 years!
Yeah a very 'warm' welcome to the heart of Brittania. Thank god I'm one of those people who like cold weather......but London did try and push the envelope on that a bit too much. Zero to minus zero temperatures along with gusts of cold winds ensured that our first buys in GBP were warm jackets and boots. This is how we looked every time we stepped out. Quite a stark contrast from the warm and pleasant temperatures of Sub Saharan Africa!
So here's to a jolly good time in the heart of Brittania....filled with experiences that will shape us in indefinable ways. Happy New Year to us :-)
