Leeds Stories


Home Again

This entry is greatly overdue! I arrived safely home to English soil on Wednesday (12th) morning at around 9am, reeking of curry! I hadn’t realised that the rich smells of Delhi dust and spices rub off on you (as Ruth and my mother noticed on the journey home from the airport) and they stuck with me for some hours after my return. Like fading echoes of ...


And in the Beginning.........

The beauty of coming to teach in England when we did was that we would end up with another set of end of year holidays (six weeks worth!). After what turned out to be a very long and tiring term, we were just about ready for a break. We'd made a decision to work the entire term and live on the cheap so we could put the pounds away for the extended bre...


Revenge of the Family

A week out from the end of our first block of teaching we were invaded by .... the family!!!! We met Andrew and Jess in London trying to imitate turtles (they had huge backpacks on their backs and fronts) and brought them back up to Leeds to "doss" on our floor for two weeks. As always happens, they led us astray and much imbibing was to be had by al...


A Home........At Last

After about two weeks of living/working out of a hotel room, we managed to get our own place. We are located in a one bedroom apartment on the fourth floor of a building which is roughly in the centre of town. We live on the edge of the financial district and above a collection of restaurants and pubs/bars - right in the centre of the action. This makes...