872 A New Life and Work in Umbria

Hello - we are Gill & Geoff and are moving to Umbria (from London), with our 2 young children, at the end of August 2005. We have bought a 'casale' which, with a lot of hardwork, patience and money, we hope to renovate as soon as possible (we have renovated our last 2 houses in the UK). Although we know this will keep us busy enough, we do hope to work as well.

Geoff's grounding is as a UK qualified electrician, although for the past 10 years has concentrated on runing his own IT firm which specialised is data/telecoms installation both within the UK and around the rest of Europe. Gill has a few strings to her bow - a dog groomer, PA and, up until recently, worked as a fully qualified spa/massage/beauty therapist.

We are, and have, for the last year and a half been learning Italian, although we are by no means fluent we are hoping that it will come more natrually once we are absorbed within the language. Does anybody know of any work that may be available around the Umbria region for any of the above professions, although we will turn our hand to most things.

Any advice will be most welcome.