I have to say, how good TI are in responding to problems, twice now in the last few months, we have had problems (not of their making), and within 24/36 hrs they have been here fixing, photographing the poles, sorting things out etc.bravo TI,S
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Well...................it looks like this site's demise is imminent, it has slipped downwards rapidly over the last few days to the point of hardly any posts, we have gone (very) slow again and it is almost on its last legs ?S
Tue, 09/20/2011 - 04:20
AGI) Rome - Out of a total of 13,500 checks on receipts issued in Rome, Jan to Aug, tax police report fines in 51pc of cases.
Thu, 09/15/2011 - 01:57
Ryanair passengers must sign up for a new branded pre-paid card available from 4 October in order to avoid an administration fee of £6 per journey.Passengers using Mastercard pre-paid cards, which currently exempt them from the fee, will be charge
Wed, 09/14/2011 - 13:17
Not sure how relevant this is at this late stage ?Italy Italian General strike 6 September, 2011Update 1 September Italian airport operational personnel, technical maintenance personnel will also strike this day from 8am to 4pm utc.
Mon, 09/05/2011 - 13:43
Some good stuff in here !http://www.corriere.it/english/11_agosto_31/mayors-publish-everyone-retu...
Thu, 09/01/2011 - 13:55
Well, early July, well into the 30s................anybody TOO hot yet ??S
Thu, 07/07/2011 - 10:09
Hi Folks,I KNOW this is an odd one...............We are travelling from Le Marche to BAVARIA (yes) in December (yes DECEMBER)......We would like to stop off for a single night on the way, we ideally would like a small town, where we can spend an a
Wed, 07/06/2011 - 13:13
Should this be a concern to us here in Italy ? Shares in Italy's banks fell sharply after Moody's threatened to cut the country's sovereign debt rating, saying structural weaknesses such as a rigid labour market pose a challenge to gro
Mon, 06/20/2011 - 16:14
Is it me, or is this year starting off very well weather wise ?............ not a lot of long-lasting snow (for us) early on and now(we are only mid June) it's 'hot'................, I recall some weeks ago having to water the gar
Sat, 06/18/2011 - 10:11
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I have to say that I am very saddened to hear of this, I actually think that it is not a true representation of all that is Italian. In reality, the people in and around the village that we live are probably the friendliest people we have had the pleasure of living with. Having said that, we were quoted 18,000 euros for the conveyancing on the property that we bought by a lovely chap in Amandola, although he did say that he was 'very good' (!!!!!!!)........... I replied using a two word english expression, the second word being 'off' (mi scusa). But,............... whilst hindsight is great, this is indeed a sad tale............ Good luck, S
Well,............ I fear the worst here; in any other country what would you do ? Get your contract, go to the police, get yourself a good solicitor and prepare for a lengthy court case !! A sad tale ....... S
Well,................... when it rains, it RAINS, when it snows, it SNOWS, when it is windy, it is WINDY, when it is hot, it is HOT.................and so on. We have 'proper' seasons here (which personally I prefer), some of the rains in the last few years though have been very significant, but it is wonderful here pretty much all of time ! S
I have to say, this is the first time that you have 'suffered' since I have been around 3+ years! Things MUST have been bad! I have just been sitting in the sun by the side of the pool have a glass of bubbles and considering what we should do in preparation for 'next time'. I think it is difficult to decide, we could JUST get out of our track, we had an old phone that worked, we had a range of 'mickey mouse' candles, we had loads of logs for our stufe, food, water, beer, wine for weeks. BUT my gawd........we missed electricity. S
well done Allan S
Wowza!!! Just got the electric back on after 40 hours without it...........but at least it was only leccy!! S
Hmmmm...........I may be confused....(the Tom Jones effect - 'it's not unusual' !!). A friend of mine has just installed a very big pellet boiler that heats water and the radiators (basically it's a huge black box about 1.5mtr high and one mtr square with a built in hopper at the top). It doesn't seem outrageously noisy and he reckons he uses a bag of pellets (circa E3.50 each), all in all seems good?'
Nice one bunterboy ...ho ho ! I tend to agree if this is possible? Now .............Lorraine, your thinking in terms of age is pretty much spot on. BUT, for what are considered 'serious/life threatening' ailments (Asthma being one) you would get these medications free (I believe), other non serious ailments you would pay for. A friend of mine (same age-ish as yourself) takes statins for instance and they are not charged for them. There is a list somewhere (I think it's been on this forum but lordie knows where), which outlines the 'rules'. These rules can then be interpreted very differently across the various healthcare regions. You'll survive !! S
Yessssss..................It is probably the one thing that concerned me, but then the old loggia stores wood? The noise doesn't seem TOO bad, and I suppose I'd have one in a (say) uility room? S
This is quite a toughie to respond to, we pay less (in total) for all our 'standard living costs' here than we did back in the UK. House here is smaller though! We have not tried the pellet stoves but they seem very efficient, and clean? reletive to (say) wood. S