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Mon, 03/22/2010 - 06:16

Comments posted

Tue, 09/21/2010 - 09:51

Greece

Answer to: Mosquitoes
Fri, 08/20/2010 - 04:18

Top tips, 1) get a suntan 2) dont scratch, if you can get over the first couple of minutes it will normally disappear 3) saliva, lick you fingers and gently rub onto bite, works really well 4) avoid grassed areas at dusk

Fri, 07/30/2010 - 12:23

From memory I think 1 quintale was about Eur 50 - 100kg's of properly seasoned fire wood, you could get a lot of quintale's out of a mature tree but it wont be seasoned. Personally I would treat every tree I own as a valuble commodity casue I have a couple of stuffa's and woods chaeper than gas. If you have fire / log burner I would keep the wood for myself.

Answer to: Bankers Draft
Fri, 07/23/2010 - 07:24

in the uk going into an unauthorised overdraft is seen as a valid income line for most banks. In Italy going into an un-authorised o/d is illegal and going to get you in deep water. Chances are if someone issues a cheque the bank will probably honour it (unless its for a bonkers amount) but then send the local gendarmes around to collect the debt. You still have to be wary of stolen chq books etc. re bankers draft, they are drawn against the issuing bank, not the person, generally if you want a draft you have to put up the cash first unless your bank has agreed a limit with you. Totally agree with the point about electronic funds transfer.

Tue, 07/06/2010 - 05:22

Hi sent you a pm

Answer to: TV set from UK
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 07:14

Hi Serrano I should of been more specific, german friends of ours maintain that constant switching reduces life span of appliances - no idea how true this is. The other point is when using UK appliances via an adapter. I dont think many of them any sort of polarity protection.

Answer to: TV set from UK
Tue, 06/29/2010 - 04:05

One tip for longevity of your electric plug ins, mark one side of the plug as top, that way you avoid reversing the polarity every time you plug in. Were on 3kw, can run washing machine, pool pumps lights, tv no prob, put the oven on as weel and will almost cetainly trip the electric, plug in a couple of hairdryers and guaranteed to trip the leccy

Mon, 06/21/2010 - 08:17

ditto

Tue, 06/15/2010 - 03:38

Hi, can you be a bit more specific with the area

Wed, 06/09/2010 - 06:20

We were told before purchase that all fees, tax, registrations etc would come in at circa 12% of the purchase price, turned out to be spot on but we did also pay for our own solicitor over and above the notary. If i can remeber correctly our notary fees amounted to about 5% and solicitors fees about 2.5%. on 200k a 10k notary fee seems about right. Correct me if im wrong but dosnt a big chunk of the notary fee go toward paying the iva?