CONSIDER yourself being a young Hispanic couple living in an apartment of New York. You have just been from your honeymoon and your wife is just barely two weeks pregnant (well, at least you have gone to an obstetrician already after the pregnancy kit revealed a positive sign). Anyway, you both have jobs and you want to continue living in the flat that you are renting in Manhattan. But you soon find out that the United States is experiencing a very alarming credit crisis and you can’t take it anymore. Then an opportunity to work in Spain just pops out for both of you. What will you do?

IF Paris is considered the City of Lights in mainland Europe, then London can be considered the City of Lights in the Island of Great Britain. There are numerous landmarks in London along the River Thames that are dazzling with lights not just this Christmas season but for the whole year round. Among them are the London Eye, the Tower Bridge, Westminster Bridge, the London Bridge, the Buckingham Palace, the Westminster Palace, Big Ben and the uniquely-shaped City Hall.