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Gotta be quick 'cos I'm in work. Look forward to getting to know some of the posters here.
Started visiting Italy a few years back and alongside Greek island-hopping it's when/where I'm at my happiest.
When my girlfriend and I were looking to buy a place abroad Italy and Greece were the only options in our minds. Italy won out due to the food (naturally!). We looked at several properties in Puglia before friends of friends from Naples practically ordered us to go to Sardinia. We did and we've never looked back.
Last year, along with two friends we bought a two bed townhouse and have spent the last 12 months flitting back and forth between Cardiff and Aggius. Each time we return home we are more desperate than ever to go back.
Why? The weather is invariably superb (except between December and early April when it can veer between pleasantly warm and buttock-tighteningly cold), the people are wonderful (particularly all those who helped us buy and have since become friends) and the food a delight.
By the way did I mention we let the place out? :)

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Introduce Yourself - Piacere Conoscerti

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/26/2005 - 06:39

Hi and welcome to the forums. Hope you enjoy your time here.

It would be great to hear more of your experiences of Sardinia - not many people here seem to have spent time there.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/26/2005 - 09:38

:) Sano

Thanks for the welcome.
How about you? What sparked your interest in Italy?
Personally speaking it was when I spent two fantastic evenings in a restaurant called Ciba in the Trastevere area of Rome (sadly no longer there - the restaurant not the area obviously - but if anyone knows where the chef/chefs went please let me know).
By the way is there anyone from Cardiff or Newport who knows of a good introductory language course in either city?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/26/2005 - 10:19

[QUOTE=speckled hen]:) Sano

Thanks for the welcome.
How about you? What sparked your interest in Italy?
Personally speaking it was when I spent two fantastic evenings in a restaurant called Ciba in the Trastevere area of Rome (sadly no longer there - the restaurant not the area obviously - but if anyone knows where the chef/chefs went please let me know).
By the way is there anyone from Cardiff or Newport who knows of a good introductory language course in either city?[/QUOTE]

I grew up with stories of my great-grandfather, who was a bit of a scoundrel, who emigrated with his brothers from Italy to the diamond fields in South Africa early in the 20th century (via most of the African continent it seems).

Much of my mother's family maintained links with Italy, either marrying people from there or spending part of their time there, so even though we lived at the bottom end of Africa, the country was never far from our minds.

I fell in love with Italy on my first visit to the country (in 2000) and have gradually become a devout Italophile.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/26/2005 - 10:41

Sano, write a book about grandad Sano...would be wonderful.... :)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/26/2005 - 10:58

[QUOTE=alex and lyn]Sano, write a book about grandad Sano...would be wonderful.... :)[/QUOTE]

Ha! I will have to wait for a few more relatives to pass away before I go public with everything that man got up to. His descendents are positively boring compared to him.

When we were doing the research to claim Italian citizenship, most every week some or other startling discovery would have me on the phone to my family or them on the phone to me. Was probably the most exciting genealogy that we have ever done!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/26/2005 - 13:32

Now you have to write the book after tempting us like that !!!! Can't you give us just a few snippets !!!! ;)