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Settled!

It’s official. After a week of collating documents, translating Brazilian bills, writing letters and filling applications, we had our interview yesterday afternoon with the immigration authorities in Croydon.
We had this romanticed and naive idea that when they said we had to pay £950 for premium service, it meant we would be received in a plush [...]

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Thames and the City

Over the course of the weekend, the Thames south-embankment tranforms into huge outdoors festival. London is always teeming with festivals, and surprinsingly given the unreliable weather, outdoor festivals remain very popular. As long as it is not absolutely flooded with rainwater and the winds are not gale-strong, the English know how to enjoy the outing [...]

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