I just got back from my parents’ place and saw the pictures from the bathroom. My parents (and uncle and aunt) were so nice as to drop by in Italy last week to fix the tiling in the bathroom in the house.
The bathroom is pretty much *not* like your ordinary bathroom in the sense that it has all kinds of weird angles and little cracks. Lars and I went to Italy a few weeks ago to prepare the floor. There were some cracks that needed to be fixed and other than that it was level at all. A bathroom floor shouldn’t be level (the water needs to flow to the drain) but it was almost like we had we the Alps right in our bathroom…
Anyway, my parents, uncle and aunt were there for a week and other than visiting Turin and a few other places (the Matterhorn, or Mt. Cervina as it’s called in Italian) they spent three days working on the tiling. As you can see in the pictures, it’s quite done now. It’s not the biggest bathroom ever, but well, there’s hot water now and we can take shower inside instead of outside (that was romantic though 
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I might still be heading to Italy for a weekend or so this year, but if that doesn’t work out, I’ll be there in February again, to check out the ski pistes. Supposedly there are some quite nice areas there to check out.
Ah, my parents also had one of the local farmers drop by. He has his cows graze our land and he wanted to pay us for it. I think getting twenty euros for that is silly, so instead he came with a nice fontina cheese… Great stuff!
If you click on the pictures, you end up at the Picasa Web Gallery. There’s even a movie of the bathroom (with my mom giving comments 
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Posso usare il bagno?
Il bagno è terminato, ma si aspetta che sia pronta la cucina per inaugurare la casa
Allora dirai: “Il pranzo è pronto !”
La cucina è pronta gia. C’e una scalda bagno per acqua calda e un fornello a gas (con bombole). Abbiamo cuccinato multe cene gia (bisteccho di vitello, gnocchi, polenta, you name it ;-). Ma naturalmente non buono come le cose di mamma
Ma certamente Andrea. Non va la questo anno. In Fevruaio andiamo la per fare il sci(?). Penso che al inferno non c’e l’acqua la, solo in estate…
Sempre benvenuto!
Troppo buono Alef!
But why there’s no water in winter? Is it too cold? It should be nice having a bath outside in winter with 20 C°
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oooopssss….a ment -20 °
There is no communal water… yet… The water comes from somewhere high up in the mountains and is delivered to the houses in the surroundings by various pumping stations. They’ve told us it’s possible to connect it / turn it on in winter, but I’m not really sure I believe that
Maybe it’s true, that’d be great of course.
There’s a big swimming pool close by they’ve built for the 2006 Olympics, with sauna, hammam and everything else you’d wish for, so the showering / bathing won’t be a big problem in winter.
Just have to flush the toilet with a bucket of water or so
Well, anyway, we didn’t buy the house just for winter, in summer it’s cool too, so for now this’ll have to do. The locals (as we call them) are already surprised we’re going up there in the first week of October 
At the moment they’re working on getting communal water to the houses, but that’ll probably take another two or three years.