Friends, Romans and gays,

Some of you may know that I’ve been living and working on secondment in Berlin as of January this year. It’s pretty awesome here and I like it a lot, so I/we have decided to move here properly. 

We’re going to get rid of the flat in London when the lease expires at the end of July and find a flat in Berlin for us both.

Work have agreed to my transfer to the Berlin office, which is pretty awesome news

This is a big change, especially for Liam who will need to learn German before finding work. Change is good as a rest, they say, so let’s see how right old proverbs are.

We’re gonna miss you all, but hope that you come visit us. The plan is to find somewhere to live that we can easily host others and then have people come visit as often as they like. And I’ve worked it out so we’ll be doing this just before the car crash that is the Olympics occurs

So yeah, gbye London with your congestion, council tax, shit air quality and crap politicians and hello Berlin with your giant park in the middle, proper cycle lanes, blue skies (well, right now ) and sensible transport systems.

All I gotta do now is register as a person and find a flat...

Incidentally, Berlin Pride (CSD) is on 23rd June. Berlin Stadtfest is on 16+17 June, if anyone fancies coming over for either, there’ll be floorspace

Plan for me is to head back to London for the week beginning 25th June - will be Pushing the Button on the Friday, Freakcity birthdaying on the Saturday and heading back to Berlin on the Monday. If any of you have a driving license and the ability to hire a van, I may have need of you late June/early July...

This is all a bit scary, but also all a bit very exciting and new. Bad or good, change is usually for the best, hoping that’s the case here