Hi all, does anyone know if we take a digital TV from the UK to Italy if it will work OK there? Many thanks in advance.Toni
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We have finally found a piece of land in Campania that we plan on buying for €53,000.00. It is classed as agricolo E/2.
Fri, 12/02/2011 - 16:30
Some of you may remember our posts a few months ago about driving down to our holiday home in Santa Marina via the swiss mountain passes.
Sun, 07/03/2011 - 08:08
We are driving down to Italy later on in the year and wondered if anyone can recommend somewhere decent to stay (that includes breakfast) between Lucern and Sarnen in Switzerland.
Sun, 02/27/2011 - 05:47
Next year when we go to our house in Southern Italy we plan on driving down instead of flying.
Sun, 11/14/2010 - 17:17
We plan on driving to Italy next year and wondered if anybody has a left hand drive small 4x4 for sale, which is ideally UK registered.
Sun, 10/17/2010 - 17:36
I have been told that my grandfather was an Italian prisoner of war in England during the second world war. He met my grandmother and wanted her to go to Italy with him to live, but for some reason she wouldn't go.
Mon, 08/30/2010 - 05:39
Have often seen the ribbon decorations on the wedding cars in Italy and wonder how they are made. Have done a search on google, but not found how to make them.
Mon, 07/12/2010 - 10:00
We have been trying to top up our Italian mobile via the wind site the last few days. Each time we put in the amount required and the cell phone number as requested, but it will not go through to the next page.
Sat, 05/22/2010 - 12:52
Just wondering if anyone has seen turtles while they have been in Italy. If so, in which area did they see them and was it at a wildlife park, or somewhere more like in their natural habitat.
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 04:22
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Yes a screwfix book is a great idea. My husband took the screwfix book when he spent a month in Italy renovating our house. When I arrived there two weeks later I was amazed how many building terms he knew.He also suggests a digital camera for any really awkward plumbing fittings etc that may need replacing. Then at least you have a picture on the camera screen to point at if all else fails.Mind you when he asked for una borsa di intonaco (bag of plaster) expecting a bag of pink plaster powder to mix up into plaster he was most surprised to be given a bag of wet ready mixed white plaster - hence "nothings ever quite as you expect it".This has come to be our motto several times since then.
Did she say it was "poi parlare piu lentamente per favour" by any chance? That reminds me we also had some Readers Digest tapes at the beginning with some awful accompanying music and that phrase was on those. It is a very helpful phrase, but the last time I asked our friend that, she had somebody else coming in her shop and she didn't want to repeat it in front of them! About a day later the penny dropped of what she had been trying to say to us. As the saying goes "piano piano". Good luck with Michel Thomas, he has definitely helped us come on with our Italian.
Many thanks to Ram and Chardonnay for your replies. It sounds encouraging! We do both speak what would probably be classed as intermediate Italian, but my husband would need to concentrate on motor trade words to feel more confident working there I guess. Still he has got a bit of time yet.Thanks again.Toni
Welcome to the community. It is amazing what information you can pick up on this forum. Hope you enjoy reading the comments as much as we have so far.Enjoy!John & Toni
Many thanks to all those who have replied so far. Some interesting comments have been put forward and we will be exploring them further. Thank you!
When we purchased our house (not via auction though) the notary mentioned after she had done her work that we would still need to employ a geometra. We didn't have time to sort that out on that visit and it slipped our mind until we went to the comune to pay for our rubbish collection. They then brought up the subject of if we had registered the property. We then had to find a geometra who did all the necessary paperwork and registered it with the Agenzia dell territorio (land registry).
Ciao Geoff and welcome to the community.We have been members for a couple of weeks now and are just as passionate about all things Italian as it sounds like you are. Please feel free to view our introduction posted 2/8/09 about how we came to own our holiday home in Santa Marina. We plan on living there (hopefully in the next few years), when we can convince somebody local to sell us a piece of land. We will keep our current house there as a holiday let though.I listen to the Michel Thomas CD's on my way to work in the car. We find his style of learning very good and often try to speak to each other in Italian. Even so there is nothing like being in Italy and using the language, we always seem to learn more there. We don't get told "piano piano" so often now either! We even understand more of what the little eighty year old lady says who lives next door to us in Santa Marina and speaks the local dialect of Santamarinese (hence our user name).At least good has come out of bad from your accident if it means that you have been able to rekindle your love affair with Italy. Hope you are improving and will be back at work soon and off to discover Roma. What an ideal job you have! There has been a post on the community recently about travel cards for Rome. I don't know if you have already seen it.I have a fascination of mosaics and have done one of a sea monster and octopus on my bathroom wall, with the date that our house was built (1799) on the bath panel in roman numerals. As you can imagine 1799 is quite long in roman numerals. The romans were so advanced and so inventive. We really enjoyed our trip to Pompeii and plan on visiting Herculaneum next time we are there.Enjoy the community and hope to hear how your trip to Rome goes and how you get on in your Italian classes. Is your wife going to join you at the classes? We find that in Italy it takes us both to listen, one to answer and the other to prompt them when they get stuck!Best wishesToni
Funnily enough I don't remember seeing them in the Italy Mag for a while now!
We have been in a similar dilemma several times ourselves now. Our friends who look after our house in Italy always invite us to dinner when we are over there. We have tried scottish shortbread, flowers, selection of british jams and marmalades, tea, but the biggest hit so far has been a selection of cakes from the local pasticceria.We will be very interested to see what other replies you get, because we are running out of ideas ourselves now!
Hi MonicaI didn't realise there were so many versions! I only heard about layering in some boiled egg last week from a colleague at work, who said she had been told to do this by an Italian person. I thought she was having me on, but perhaps not!I agree with Gala Placidia that the best lasagne sheets are the homemade ones. I didn't realise that it was so easy to make your own pasta until I got the Jamie Oliver book that has all the Italian recipes in it. It is also quite fun using the pasta machine and it is amazing how much pasta you can get from such a small ball of dough.When we go to dinner at our friends in Italy the wife often makes fresh pasta for us. When we went to her shop to buy some orichiette to bring back to England before we left last time, she said she would make us some of that next time. I might have to ask her if I can go and help her make it to see how easy it is. I will probably only be able to make a few to her 100 or so.Hope you have fun trying out all of the versions. You will have to let us all know which one you think is the best.Toni