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been to sicily twice since original question/post. first time in october last year, went by myself so asked my cousin to collect and drop me off from trapani - did not think it was worth hiring a car just for myself. second time, had the wife with me so hired a car from autoeurope. this time as it was mid february had to go via palermo as not flights to trapani. when we arrived we had to get a shuttle bus just outside the main entrance to the car hire area situated a few minutes away. autoeuropa was the italian name, they took provisional 1000 euro form my credit card, we got a fiat 500 - not bad for £82 for the whole week. took my own satnav, worked a treat apart from taking us half motorway and small lanes the rest, didn't make the same mistake on return journey. the service overaul from auto europe was in my opinion quite good, a nice touch was that they gave you all the needed telephone numbers and also the address of a petrol station to refill on return near palermo. the only point of note was that the 1000 euro deposit was always at the back of my mind but put forward when on 3 occasions whilst driving through very dark country lanes and shortly after a bend finding dogs standing in the road staring at you. evasive action had to be taken on two occasions and hard braking on the other, i shudder to think the about the damage and the cost had i made contact with them. i hope anyone thinking of hiring a car in italy in the future will find this post usefull...

i used parcel monkey to send a computer tower a while back who in turn used parcel force at much reduced price - there are many other similar companies as well with varying pricing and availability.

thanks Gala for your eloquent translation. i'm sudddenly having visions of telling my wife to use some "olio di gomito" next time she cleans something...

Spirit Of Salts, not sure how you say it in italian but here's google translation :) 'Spirit Of Sali'

I wonder if there were sick morons making similar jokes at the time when the Titanic sank? My main point here is that this is not mainstream English sense of humour and shouldn’t be labelled as such. I am an Italian living in England and know for a fact that a majority of English people would not find this amusing, only very uneducated and mentally disturbed English people make light of and publish such material.

thanks Andiamo, i'll take a close look at them.

Thanks for reply Andiamo, i can't find a specific link to a tim offer on that page - could you provide one please? my limited italian makes it very difficult to look through search pages and terms and conditions etc...

Hi Tartuffa, I already have a mobile phone with vodafone which gets a very good signal in our apartment as do other providers such as tim and wind. some examples of currently available deals for 'open' keys would be very helpful... thanks

http://www.java.com/en/download/help/enable_browser.xml follow instructions for firefox...

regarding the non stick coating on pans etc. - how do they make it stick?