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Hey everyone, just a quick update to let you all know where we're at now that we've finished our travels. I'd initially intended to finish all the remaining blog entries and post them in one hit... but it's taken three weeks to get one of them done, so that idea has been abandoned

We got to London three weeks ago and on our first day there Sonia got a call back from an architecture firm in Copenhagen that she had visited. The director wanted a proper interview with her, so we organised to head back to Denmark, since the firm was so prestigious and awesome we thought it would be worth the extra expense and hassle to go back. The firm is also just starting up a product design department so I also had a chance of meeting them as well.

As a result, we were kind of stuck in limbo- looking for jobs and houses but unable to commit to anything because of going back to Denmark and possibly being offered work there. It was so strange to decide on London and get our headspace ready for that, only to know we might go back to Denmark for a while!

So we both worked hard on sending out CVs and folios, and chasing up different job leads. After a couple of weeks it became clear that all the great firms that I had contacted just weren't interested in hiring anyone at the moment, so I got in touch with a couple of recruitment agencies. Sonia had already contacted recruiters first, and has had a couple of promising job interviews and second interviews.

We flew to Denmark on Monday morning and interviewed with the architecture firm here. It went well for both of us and it was great to meet the director there, but it seems like he was just interested in meeting us in person, since he has some future projects that he has us in mind for. So we're heading back to London to throw ourselves back into the job and house hunt, knowing that we might have an opportunity back here in a few months time.

Househunting is another drama- we've looked at about a million ads, phoned about 30 people, and actually viewed only 6 places in the last week. 2 were indescribably bad, 2 were ok, one was just crazy, and one was absolutely amazing- and all of them were around the same price!
So we've got a couple of hopeful leads and a few more places to look at later in the week. It's actually a relief that Denmark won't be happening immediately, so we can just get a place and finally have a bed and a cupboard and a room to ourselves again. Travelling for so long is so very tiring.

The flickr page is up-to-date as far as travel photos go- http://www.flickr.com/photos/legham/collections/72157600237293485/ and we promise that the blog entires will get finished, once we have a computer of our own and some spare time
I've also just updated the travel map, so you can get a better idea of where and when we actually wandered around Europe.

Hope you're all keeping well, drop us a line anytime

-Liam and Sonia