With some Christmas money I bought myself a bread maker. The results have been lovely, with fresh bread ready each morning for breakfast when we come downstairs.
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I've had this problem Try a new key, a very light, light touch. Maybe get someone else to have a go. My friend got it open whereas I had tried time and time again.
Sat, 07/30/2011 - 15:21
On Friday 10 June we were in the La Spezia area and it happened that Il Presidenti di Italia was there too. The police were out in force, the roads had blocs, and the traffic lights remained red. It was the first day of our 8 day stay and my 84
Thu, 06/16/2011 - 16:26
I'm Looking forward to seeing more good weather in Italy when we arrive later this week. It's been wonderful here in England just recently. I remember the hot days in early summer last year and our thwarted attempts to visit the olympic-sized pu
Sun, 05/08/2011 - 18:54
Last year in Pisa we parked the car in a disabled parking space and displayed my 84 year old mother's UK disabled parking badge on the dashboard of our hired car. A notice beside the disabled space gave a telephone number to use in case of any dif
Tue, 02/08/2011 - 08:35
The local hair salon just down the road from our Italian apartment looks a very traditional place. It has photos of ladies sporting boufant hair dos as well others with stylish cut and blow dries. Behind the net curtains I can see old fashioned
Mon, 04/26/2010 - 16:35
I have just read about someone else who has had trouble with work concerned with a waterproof membrane being fitted incorrectly. We are going to have to pay out approximately E5000 to our condominium administrator for our share of relaying our p
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 20:31
We got back from a week in our new appartamento in Lunigiana last night. Didn't see much sun in Italy, but the weather was mild, and when we threw open the kitchen window shutters on the second morning of our holiday it was to see snow had fallen
Thu, 11/12/2009 - 18:26
There is an idea buzzing around in my head that I might like to set up and try out a market stall in our local town in Italy, selling some of my own, personal, ‘collectible’ items such as glassware (less than 75 years old, not antique), pottery, p
Mon, 10/05/2009 - 10:08
Anyone looking to furnish their property quickly and for a reasonable price could try Mondo Convenienza http://www.mondoconv.it/ As well as stores in many areas they have an online catalogue.
Wed, 09/30/2009 - 09:42
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I have two grandchildren with mixed English, Italian, Turkish and Philippine blood. The children are 16 months and 6 years, and communicate and understand in all languages with the help of plenty of smiles, hand-signs and eyebrow movements! The Philippine language is called Tagalog.
Hello Malty - I have just read your post and immediately looked up the Valvori website to see where it is. Looks a lovely little place. How lucky you are to have an Italian speaking wife and family living in the area. It will make things so much easier when you come to relocate one day. We are buying a small place in the Lunigiana area, and should complete in a few weeks. We are learning everything along the way, and I can only say, if we had had previous experience of the Italian way of buying, or guidance on the ground, it would have been far simpler, and certainly we would have saved money in costs knowing what is important and what is not. Never mind. We decided that having a place in Italy would be a project to keep us entertained in retirement - learning the Italian way of doing things. We have had an introduction to the deep end! Enjoy your holiday. We are just waiting to hear when we will have to come to Italy to doing the signing up (and they paying!).
I see that Gromit has changed his picture and just like me has 2 on display. My original photo remains on the main post, but the replacement photo comes up everywhere else.
We've got our EasyJet cards - now I'll have to spend lots of money to ensure that I get plenty of airmiles!!!
Believe it or not, in Nice. That's why I want to get rid of the photo. At the time I joined it was the only picture I had to hand. The eye picture is representative of "keeping my eye on all things Italian" going on on this site. I think it is confusing having two pictures of one user running on different parts of the site, I hope the administrator can sort it out soon. Otherwise I am thrilled to bits to have so much information so easily accessible, and I have already had a very helpful private reply to my appeal for an English speaking surveyor.
I have been fiddling about trying to get rid of the old picture and replace it with the new. What I get is the old picture (of me) in Community Activity, and then when I click on the post link, I get the new picture (of an "eye"). Is this a bug to be ironed out, or am I going about it in the wrong way please?
Many thanks for your comments. For the moment we are still pursuing our enquires through the condominium administrator, If we are still unhappy, then maybe this will be our next step.
Yes, I see your point, although now we have decided to go ahead with the purchase anyway, without a report. I hope we don't live to regret it! Our avvocato would be able to do a translation of an Italian report, but the problems are so obscure I think we would need to be present/or on the phone, to explain the situation to a surveyor, and say what we were specifically concerned about. A full general report is not what we need. I do hope someone can make a helpful suggestion.
Thank you what a good tip. I will look into the EasyJet card straight away,
I have to say we are not anxious about buying in Italy or the unknown ..... all that makes for an exciting project. Our concerns at the moment involve flooded garages, crumbling balconies, leaking terraces, out of order lift, and costs hard to pin down. Otherwise the apartment is lovely ...... we really like it!!!! A bargain!