Tag: Relocation
Reflections on Relocation: Part 1
First of two articles, written five months after we arrived in Belgium, comparing the UK to our new home.
Reflections on Relocation: Part 2
The second of two articles looking back on relocation to Brussels five months on. This is my partner J’s perspective.
Totally wired for Belgium
Relocating to Brussels throws up lots of challenges such as how to evaluate Belgian supermarket chains and rewire UK plugs.
Don’t let me be misunderstood
Warning: linguistic variety can damage the quality of your own native language.
Relocating to Brussels: the final haul
Moving to Brussels: temporary accommodation, commune registration, parking permits, utilities, rubbish collection, doctors, dentists.
Buying soap (and the accretion of experience)
Shops close on Sundays in Brussels. So what happens if you need a bar of soap?
Where am I?
As you will have read, we relocated recently. Can you guess where I am from the photo on the right? First person to leave a comment with the correct answer wins a box of chocs Note that family members and best men are not eligible to enter.
Leaving the UK
Finally we’re leaving Britain to become real Europeans. But first we have to get there.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Welcome home, Scofield
Cars can become so dear to their owners that even a minor accident is deeply traumatic.
- Originally published: 30 Aug 2006 in Editorial
Brokeback Mountain
Known as the greatest script never to be greenlighted, Brokeback finally got made and it’s not a bad effort.
- Originally published: 25 Mar 2007 in Film
Ourthe Valley
Bright autumn colours deep in the folds of the Ardennes.
- Originally published: 1 Nov 2009 in Walking
Cononley
I grew up in a small village on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales.
- Originally published: 31 Dec 2009 in Walking
Rant
Palahniuk’s changing – or maybe it’s me – but I predict a parting of the ways sometime soon.
- Originally published: 3 Jul 2008 in Books
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.