Hello there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have arrived safely and happily (though tired) in the United Kingdom!

First new insight: couchsurfing for the first couple of nights was the best idea we had in a long time. Clarification: Our hosts Chris and John are just awesome (as are the many friends of them we've met), the couches are sufficiently comfy and we are having a wonderful time.


Second new insight: England sure knows how to extend a warm welcome.
Clarification: we were able to spend the whole day in the park. Outside! In Britain! In September!


So we pretty much did what we're best at: hang out and talk shit:-P

Having returned from the park we sat down around a little fire in "our" backyard (quote of the day #1: N: "I already feel at home here." - M: "But we don't even have a home yet." - "N: Exactly!") and met some more friends and neighbours and a third couchsurfer from France, all of them really, really nice and also very funny people.

Quote of the day #2: M: "There's a German joke..." - Chris: "No, there isn't." We were practically laughing our heads of on that one.

Definition of the day #1: Beer jacket: the sensation of not being cold despite low outside temperature as a consequence of beer consumption

Today's been such a wonderful first day in Sheffield that we didn't do anything like looking for a flatshare, checking out where uni is or the like^^. Which means we're in beertween couchsurfing and proper accomodation.