Experience in UK

Hi,

I am Sudhakar Manoharan. New to this blog. First time i am trying to explore this kind of tool. Trying to learn new things.

I travelled to Sunderland, which is in North East England on 11th october 2008. This was the fourth visit to UK. My first 3 visits in UK were to Coventry, Hinckley. I am pretty much used to those places. Sunderland which is nearby to New Castle. This time i had to travel from Bangalore to Mumbai. From Bangalore, my flight was at 9.30 pm. I reached mumbai around 11.50 pm. There i had to wait for 4-5 hours. I landed in Domestic airport, from there they took me to International airport by a Bus. To go in that bus, we need to take a token from the counter there. Then reached international airport at 12.45 pm. There i met my old colleague Johnson, my Ex PM who was traveling to US. Had a chat with for a while and then moved to Check In. Finished my security check - in and waited in the lounge for 2-3 hours. From mumbai i flew to dubai, which reached at 6.10 am. From dubai i flew to New castle and landed there at 1.00 pm. From New castle i catched a taxi to reach Sunderland, which costed me around 45 pounds. I reached to my B&B, which i had booked from bangalore. The B&B was "Acron Guest House" which was situated in Mowbray Road. For one night the B&B costs around 23 pounds. Which was worth stay. They provide the breakfast and very good hospitality and excellent service. I had a very good sleep there and got up early in the morning around 6.00 am. Got ready and booked a taxi to go to the office, which is situated in Mooreside park. Unfortunately the taxi driver landed me in a different location. From there i had to walk around 15 Min's to the actual office.

Once I reached Acron guest house, I dumped my stuff in the room. The room I stayed was in 2nd floor. I need to carry my 27 kilo weight suitcase right top and settled it. Took around 10-15 mins rest and went out to top up my mobiles. I somehow found a place nearby to the guest house, by walk it took me around 15-20 mins to go there. I top up my mobiles and bought some groceries. Then I went to city centre which was 25 min walk. Roamed in the city center and explored what is in the city. Then went in to SUBWAY and parceled a chicken subway and purchased some daily required stuff from the shops there. Finally reached room and had a good sleep.

Finding a house in UK is the toughest job. I am still reaching for a house that suits my requirements. I would have called more than 50 guys. Yet to find a house to the best & economical. I had to search in internet to find the house. There are lot of websites which shows the vacancies. The websites are like rightmove.co.uk, gumtree, findproperty and many more. Initially we need to search in website and then call the letting agent to arrange for a view of the house. Then if we are interested in the house, we have the pay the letting agent an amount of 120-200 pounds. Apart from this we need to give him the income proof, identity proof and bond to be prepared for either 6 months or 1 year.