Bagni area
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 03:52In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Bagni area
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 03:52In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
as I was saying........
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 03:59In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Yes as I was about to post before I was rudely cut off by the server. Jan you can get these type of things in the smaller towns, but I would head up to Galicano where there is a large Le Clerc supermarket and a Stefano (household bargain type shop) where everything you'll need is available. Fornaci di Barga is also another great town close by with tons of shops and a good market. The Lucca Antiques fair runs through out the year (think it's the 3rd Sat & Sun of each month) and there is also a weekly general market around the walls. We have lived in this area for 2 and half years now and love it, hope you will too. Tink..
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Many thanks Tink. Really good to get useful information - we will certainly follow up when we come over. Glad to hear you love the area - it'a scary buying somewhere and hoping that it's the right thing to do! How do you find the weather generally? Reasonable from say April - October or is that a bit over optimistic? We came over at the beginning of May this year and had wall to wall rain. The last few years we've been to Lucca for the same first week of May and it's been sunny and hot - hopefully this year was just a blip. Can't wait to start visiting regularlly and getting to know the area better and meeting people etc - I hope to eventually come over and spend a few weeks at a time, in the meantime I'll keep plugging away at my Italian (in one ear and out the other at the moment!) Any tips on learning the language gratefully received!! Jan
Weather 'n stuff
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 06/16/2010 - 04:49Well Jan, as the trend in Global Wetting increases, so it is reflected here. We used to come to this area in May/June for many years prior to moving here and the weather was always glorious; but over the past couple of years it has become wetter (it's chucking it down here now) and the forecast is for more rainier Summers. But (and a big but at that) the weather isn't the only thing you should come here for; the food, the scenery, the people, the Italian way of life, is much more important to us, and also the lack of 'drunken idiots' in the towns and the feeling of being safe and secure is great. Re the language; my wife is Italian so we're not affected that much and I can understand more than I speak; but just jump in every Italian will love it that you make an effort and will be willing to help you, try putting 'post it' notes on things around the house of what they are in Italian, gives you something to do when it's raining aftere all. Ciao T
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