Hi all,Im hoping some kind soul can point me in the right direction to find out the rules on opening a B&B in Le MarcheIve been advised by a comercialista that the best way to rent my home is on a B&B basis, because I live on site!I wonde
I hope this post does not offend the powers that be, but I am not sure how to ask Italy mag directly, so I thought if the query was posted here, then the question might get answered by them or someone in the know I was thinking about various other
Hi All, Im hoping a green fingered wizz might be able to answer my query. I have about 50 Olive trees, but I need to make room for building a small dog kennels & cattery business.
Just a quick hi to the site, it seems Im confined to playing on the net while watching chunks of snow falling. I just checked back 7 years (in boredom) for my region & this is the coldest march so far.
Thanks for the great tips. I will try the various advice & see what works best for me. I do classes 4 hours per week & I do TV watching etc, & have come to conclusion it deffo is not my forte. But, I am making painfully slow progress. Its just that sometimes I think more is dropping off the end, i.e forgetting more then what I am learning. Although maybe thats just on those bad hair days. I just want to be able to get the general idea of whats being said & feel that should not be asking too much by now. Anyway, Im no quitter, so will carry on. (death before disonour) (-;
Hi Gala, I read a lot of your helpful posts. I was wondering if you could also advise me on this language thing. I suppose its over 3 years that I have been studying Italian & living here. I can now express myself ok, but that seems rather pointless when I just cannot absorb the replies. If it is a short reply spoken slowly, then no problem. Anything other then that & I get lost. Could you tell me what you think I should now be concentrating on to improve this deficiency in my Italian. i.e watching TV or maybe using subtitles. Its really starting to bug me. Thanks in advance.
I think I saw one in Castarama (Italys answer to B&Q) Val Vabrata junction of A14, near San Bennedetto. But fabros (metal workers) here are much more reasonable here then I expected. Perhaps you just picked one that decided he wanted "a bit of an earner" I would try a couple of others. Good luck
Thanks to all of you for very good advice, I hope that there is not an issue with needing permission to dig up (although I dont suppose anyone would know if I did it!) Thanks Gala for the article, which I read with interest, who would have thought a tree that age could get sunburnt if re planted in diferent orientation Dylano, Its a good Idea to buy myself time & possibly ultimately getting a fair price, but its kind of double work, so there are pros & cons to that one. I guess it just depends if I can get an offer from someone before "sap rises" that wants to take care of the digging/collection. I wonder if there is a way to know more precisely when they need uprooting, I imagine its before everything goes into full flight growing mode? Which I guess means you are right in me not having much time to play with. I will try & remember to update you re- the hotel (-:
Unfortunately, many italian builders & geometras still see English as folk that will pay over the odds & not be able to do jack about it when the bills double. I know this from experience & speaking to many other brits. Obviously all cannot be tarred with same brush. But if you have the luxury of dealing with a "good" british builder, then apart from having no language barrier & also no middle man to delay your instructions, you will also save at least 10%, because you need to remember that the more expensive the job the bigger the cut for the Geometra, hence their common theme of over speccing a job. Some jobs will require a geometra to sign them off. For jobs that dont require this, I know which way I would go.
Your bread ladys mum is pretty typical. We have the farmers near me, who you would think might come to weather conclusions based on experience & observations. But, like you say they normally prefer to rely on some rather bizarre sayings. Like snow on march 1st, will mean floods till summer (actually I made that one up, cos I could not remember any of theirs)
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Thanks for the great tips. I will try the various advice & see what works best for me. I do classes 4 hours per week & I do TV watching etc, & have come to conclusion it deffo is not my forte. But, I am making painfully slow progress. Its just that sometimes I think more is dropping off the end, i.e forgetting more then what I am learning. Although maybe thats just on those bad hair days. I just want to be able to get the general idea of whats being said & feel that should not be asking too much by now. Anyway, Im no quitter, so will carry on. (death before disonour) (-;
Hi Dylano, I was also thinking of a situations vacant, but then I remembered there arent any (-;
Hi Gala, I read a lot of your helpful posts. I was wondering if you could also advise me on this language thing. I suppose its over 3 years that I have been studying Italian & living here. I can now express myself ok, but that seems rather pointless when I just cannot absorb the replies. If it is a short reply spoken slowly, then no problem. Anything other then that & I get lost. Could you tell me what you think I should now be concentrating on to improve this deficiency in my Italian. i.e watching TV or maybe using subtitles. Its really starting to bug me. Thanks in advance.
I think I saw one in Castarama (Italys answer to B&Q) Val Vabrata junction of A14, near San Bennedetto. But fabros (metal workers) here are much more reasonable here then I expected. Perhaps you just picked one that decided he wanted "a bit of an earner" I would try a couple of others. Good luck
Thanks to all of you for very good advice, I hope that there is not an issue with needing permission to dig up (although I dont suppose anyone would know if I did it!) Thanks Gala for the article, which I read with interest, who would have thought a tree that age could get sunburnt if re planted in diferent orientation Dylano, Its a good Idea to buy myself time & possibly ultimately getting a fair price, but its kind of double work, so there are pros & cons to that one. I guess it just depends if I can get an offer from someone before "sap rises" that wants to take care of the digging/collection. I wonder if there is a way to know more precisely when they need uprooting, I imagine its before everything goes into full flight growing mode? Which I guess means you are right in me not having much time to play with. I will try & remember to update you re- the hotel (-:
Unfortunately, many italian builders & geometras still see English as folk that will pay over the odds & not be able to do jack about it when the bills double. I know this from experience & speaking to many other brits. Obviously all cannot be tarred with same brush. But if you have the luxury of dealing with a "good" british builder, then apart from having no language barrier & also no middle man to delay your instructions, you will also save at least 10%, because you need to remember that the more expensive the job the bigger the cut for the Geometra, hence their common theme of over speccing a job. Some jobs will require a geometra to sign them off. For jobs that dont require this, I know which way I would go.
thanks for the amusing & educational info on who to pray to.
Your bread ladys mum is pretty typical. We have the farmers near me, who you would think might come to weather conclusions based on experience & observations. But, like you say they normally prefer to rely on some rather bizarre sayings. Like snow on march 1st, will mean floods till summer (actually I made that one up, cos I could not remember any of theirs)