what's in a name?

We've decided to change the website address (url) of this blog: it is now www.movingtomadrid.blogspot.com (formerly it was www.kateandtheo.blogspot.com).

We've decided to do this for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it's a more accurate reflection of the blog's content. "Kate and Theo" was always a kind of default name - originally the blog was about our wedding preparations and then it became about our travels; we didn't know where we were going to end up or what we were going to do, so we picked the original url name for want of a better alternative. We're aware it was rather sickeningly saccharine; now we've got a reasonable alternative we feel we're doing you all a favour!

Secondly, we've had a few enquiries from friends and friends of friends wanting to move to Spain about job opportunities here, Spanish administration, the rental market and life here in general. It struck us that some of the blog entries we've written might be of interest to total strangers wanting to make the move to Spain, or to Madrid. As prospective Madridlenos are unlikely to google "kate and theo" when searching for information about life here, we thought a more search engine friendly name would be oppropriate.

Obviously we're flattering and deceiving ourselves; chances are that whatever we call this blog, the only people reading it are going to be our mothers!!