EasyJet's allocated seating is working out fine for me - without paying for selected seats. I like to sit towards the back away from the wings but within 6 rows of the rear exit and not too close to the toilets.
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Well, we've got to drive home either tomorrow, Friday or Saturday, as our ferry sails from Calais on Monday 3rd. After 5 weeks at our apartment a few miles from the Tuscan/Ligurian coast, it's time to leave. Reluctantly.
Wed, 08/29/2012 - 16:44
We arrived at our place in Lunigiana after a slow drive through France and three nights camping. Despite the slow journey we arrived zonked and we haven't been out of our garden since arriving three days ago.
Thu, 07/26/2012 - 14:47
I thought I'd do a post as nobody else seems to be saying much. We're off on our car journey to Italy on Friday morning (for the fourth time).
Sun, 07/15/2012 - 12:34
I have not been able to view the CiaoLunigiana website for a couple of weeks. Does anyone else have the same problem? Whether I type in the web address, or click on a link from google, the same thing happens.
Thu, 07/12/2012 - 17:43
Can somebody please tell me what the brightly coloured drinks are that I see Italians with late afternoon? Bright green, bright pink, blue.I thought it was granita, but I ordered and got a slush puppy.
Sun, 07/01/2012 - 13:40
Well, having just made a posting about living frugally in Italy, I have got in the mood and I am on a roll and there is no stopping me now. This time I want to talk about travelling by car through to Italy.
Thu, 06/28/2012 - 17:40
A terrible thing has happened. I dropped my Kindle down the stairs. It slipped out of its case and and slid to the bottom step and then somersaulted onto the floor where it landed with a crack. It switches on but then gives up and turns off.
Thu, 05/10/2012 - 17:37
I'm sitting at my laptop at the window facing the garden watching the first snowflakes start to come down. We're due a heavy snowfall tonight in Buckinghamshire. There's a blackbird sitting on the garage roof wagging his head around.
Sat, 02/04/2012 - 13:23
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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!