I travelled via Belgium last week and decided to stay overnight at Dinant, where I have stayed previously and found to be marginally less bad than most towns in Belgium.To anyone contemplating a similar stop - don't.The whole of the town is being
At La Dolce Vita exhibition at Olympia this year I bought a jar of garlic cloves preserved in a pizzaiola type oil and vinegar mixture.It is just amazing for snacking, the whole cloves are really crunchy with a fairly mild flavour of the garlic an
I need to buy a tyre for my car. I googled all the usual words but came up with nothing. Back in UK I would simply go to Kwikfit, or ATS etc and it would be done on the spot.
Does anybody have a contact for a sun blind maker?Think of a conventional, rather old-fashioned roller blind with the roller fixed at the top of the window and the blind hanging vertically down.
'Actually..i'm rather suprised at the replies.Would you feel like this if you had bought this house in the UK,U.S.A.,Germany,France...etc?..." Why would it make any difference? Petty squabbles are the same in any language.
Don't have a need personally, but I'd guess a drive up the Valtellina towards Sondrio might be useful - there's lots of light industry/commerce along there.Or maybe ask at the comune office?Terry
Oh yes, the reference to A Place in the Sun.My theory is that the people on there are those who apply to beonashow.com hoping to get Who Wants to be a Millionaire for an easy 50 grand, but fail the test questions. So they get put on a property programme, or if they are freaky enough, Come Dine With Me.I'd suggest that maybe 1% of them actually do buy abroad, usually in Spain because Brits feel safe there, not having to trouble themselves to learn the language (or even basic pronunciation rules, it seems, given the way they say chorizo, Olazabal and Ibiza).
If I was young I'd probably be in Australia, regardless of any first dividend.I'm also very taken with New Zealand for a whole raft of reasons (Bluff oysters, mmmmmmm) but it would be hard for the kids to pop over for the weekend.So still Italy then.
Hmmmmm - you seem to be resting this hope for recovery on this sentence;"This last point reinforces the idea that retiring couples with windfall cash will head for the sun. That’s bullish for overseas holiday homes so get in while they are depressed".I would suggest there are better bargains to be had than in Italy, for example Spain, particularly as most people head there anyway and prices are extremely depressed. Also Florida, where prices seem to be at ridiculously low levels. I'd be tempted to invest there myself if it wasn't so far away (I don't do economy class above 4 hours). Oh and if I liked the USA, which I tend not to for various reasons.
Already said it 4 days before..............Submitted by SirTK on Mon, 2013-05-20 08:07Does anybody else wonder if this question was posted by admin in order to demonstrate how well their new "Yahoo Answers" format works?I guess you all proved them right after all.
If you go up the autostrada via Chiasso, you will need to buy a vignette at the border (€40).If you leave the autostrada at Como Nord, you go up Lake Como to Menaggio, as Alan suggests, and you stay in Italy. If you then want to visit Lugano - well worth it as it's a lovely town - you don't go on a motorway so don't need a vignette, or any paperwork, at the border at Gandria.
Does anybody else wonder if this question was posted by admin in order to demonstrate how well their new "Yahoo Answers" format works?I guess you all proved them right after all.
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'Actually..i'm rather suprised at the replies.Would you feel like this if you had bought this house in the UK,U.S.A.,Germany,France...etc?..." Why would it make any difference? Petty squabbles are the same in any language.
I would just give it to him with good grace - I'm surprised you need to ask.
Don't have a need personally, but I'd guess a drive up the Valtellina towards Sondrio might be useful - there's lots of light industry/commerce along there.Or maybe ask at the comune office?Terry
Oh yes, the reference to A Place in the Sun.My theory is that the people on there are those who apply to beonashow.com hoping to get Who Wants to be a Millionaire for an easy 50 grand, but fail the test questions. So they get put on a property programme, or if they are freaky enough, Come Dine With Me.I'd suggest that maybe 1% of them actually do buy abroad, usually in Spain because Brits feel safe there, not having to trouble themselves to learn the language (or even basic pronunciation rules, it seems, given the way they say chorizo, Olazabal and Ibiza).
If I was young I'd probably be in Australia, regardless of any first dividend.I'm also very taken with New Zealand for a whole raft of reasons (Bluff oysters, mmmmmmm) but it would be hard for the kids to pop over for the weekend.So still Italy then.
Hmmmmm - you seem to be resting this hope for recovery on this sentence;"This last point reinforces the idea that retiring couples with windfall cash will head for the sun. That’s bullish for overseas holiday homes so get in while they are depressed".I would suggest there are better bargains to be had than in Italy, for example Spain, particularly as most people head there anyway and prices are extremely depressed. Also Florida, where prices seem to be at ridiculously low levels. I'd be tempted to invest there myself if it wasn't so far away (I don't do economy class above 4 hours). Oh and if I liked the USA, which I tend not to for various reasons.
Already said it 4 days before..............Submitted by SirTK on Mon, 2013-05-20 08:07
Does anybody else wonder if this question was posted by admin in order to demonstrate how well their new "Yahoo Answers" format works?I guess you all proved them right after all.
I can give you detailed info on this - please PM me and I'll give you a full response.Only kidding
If you go up the autostrada via Chiasso, you will need to buy a vignette at the border (€40).If you leave the autostrada at Como Nord, you go up Lake Como to Menaggio, as Alan suggests, and you stay in Italy. If you then want to visit Lugano - well worth it as it's a lovely town - you don't go on a motorway so don't need a vignette, or any paperwork, at the border at Gandria.
Does anybody else wonder if this question was posted by admin in order to demonstrate how well their new "Yahoo Answers" format works?I guess you all proved them right after all.