It may be Berlusconi's birthday today, but for all of you who say to stop complaining about Berlusconi, he's been democratically elected, should read this:
Ah yes... she of course. Should stay off the wine while writing. And Andrew, who is this invitation extended to? Marche is one of the few areas in Italy bar the islands, I haven't been to. So maybe I should come and have a lokk at the wines there some time.
How interesting! I know Sally Easton well, I was on the same Master of Wine Course as I was, I did'nt know she had her own web-site now. She is very knowledgable and enthusiastic and has an excellent palate.
We used an English speaking lawyer. Her most used phrase became: "in Italy there is a law...". It usually concluded with some problem or other. She was also remarkably good value, charged us a lot less than our lawyer charged us during the sale of our house in the UK. She told us about potential problems, because our building is listed and potential take-over bids from farming neighbours. She also calmly discussed how much we should under-declare the price by in the presence of the notary and the vendor. So money well spent!
You wouldn't be following my blog, would you?! Thanks, arm is getting better, but not yet fully functioning, which is why I currently spend more time on the PC and not so much tilling the land.
Artichokes, hmmm! When is that sagra? Funny enough in the La Spezia dialect they are called artciocche. What's on offer on the Cuban evening, cigars? I went to a tasting in London years ago, matching the wines of the Rhone with Cuban cigars. Imagine a room with some 100 people smoking their way through 5 cigars each, we could hardly see the lovely, scantily clad young Cuban girls serving the wine!Capra and fagioli sounds good too. I'm getting hungry and it's only breakfast time!
Interesting comment Cassini. I don't know this part of Liguria so well, but it sounded tempting. The fact that each village has it's own dialect and food speciality is of course the case just about everywhere. What's the speciality in your village? Ours has the annual Sagra della Scherpada, Ponzano's take on the ubiquitous Torta di Verdura.
I'm much more of a dog person, but nobody has told those cats. However, word that we are a bit of a soft touch has clearly gone around the local cat community (as well as some of the dog community, but those usually have some homes to go to)
First of all I agree entirely with Afriatica and Gala having had experience of living all over the place myself. In fact I have never lived in my 'home country' which according to my passport is the Netherlands. Getting back to Sparky's original comment though, he is right to critisise incomers who keep comparing their country of origin with their host country, however the holier than though attititude as in 'oh how integrated we are compared to those misguided souls" is just as bad in my opinion.
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You're not a member of the Adams Family are you?
Andrew, that photo on your profile, is it a recent one of you? Not surprised you have trouble pronouncing your words
Ah yes... she of course. Should stay off the wine while writing. And Andrew, who is this invitation extended to? Marche is one of the few areas in Italy bar the islands, I haven't been to. So maybe I should come and have a lokk at the wines there some time.
How interesting! I know Sally Easton well, I was on the same Master of Wine Course as I was, I did'nt know she had her own web-site now. She is very knowledgable and enthusiastic and has an excellent palate.
We used an English speaking lawyer. Her most used phrase became: "in Italy there is a law...". It usually concluded with some problem or other. She was also remarkably good value, charged us a lot less than our lawyer charged us during the sale of our house in the UK. She told us about potential problems, because our building is listed and potential take-over bids from farming neighbours. She also calmly discussed how much we should under-declare the price by in the presence of the notary and the vendor. So money well spent!
You wouldn't be following my blog, would you?! Thanks, arm is getting better, but not yet fully functioning, which is why I currently spend more time on the PC and not so much tilling the land.
Artichokes, hmmm! When is that sagra? Funny enough in the La Spezia dialect they are called artciocche. What's on offer on the Cuban evening, cigars? I went to a tasting in London years ago, matching the wines of the Rhone with Cuban cigars. Imagine a room with some 100 people smoking their way through 5 cigars each, we could hardly see the lovely, scantily clad young Cuban girls serving the wine!Capra and fagioli sounds good too. I'm getting hungry and it's only breakfast time!
Interesting comment Cassini. I don't know this part of Liguria so well, but it sounded tempting. The fact that each village has it's own dialect and food speciality is of course the case just about everywhere. What's the speciality in your village? Ours has the annual Sagra della Scherpada, Ponzano's take on the ubiquitous Torta di Verdura.
I'm much more of a dog person, but nobody has told those cats. However, word that we are a bit of a soft touch has clearly gone around the local cat community (as well as some of the dog community, but those usually have some homes to go to)
First of all I agree entirely with Afriatica and Gala having had experience of living all over the place myself. In fact I have never lived in my 'home country' which according to my passport is the Netherlands. Getting back to Sparky's original comment though, he is right to critisise incomers who keep comparing their country of origin with their host country, however the holier than though attititude as in 'oh how integrated we are compared to those misguided souls" is just as bad in my opinion.