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 […]
It’s been a little while since I posted an update on Casa Pura, our humble house in the North of Italy. I just returned from a very short trip last weekend and the renovation is going quite well I can say.
Let me start where I left you: beginning of March. As I said back then, […]
Questa sera i olandesi hanno dato una grande schiaffone agli italiani. Okay, that’s enough Italian for now. I won’t repeat the other stuff I learnt tonight. After I asked an Italian friend of mine (by text message): ‘come stai? ;-)’, he responded by saying ‘come con tre dita nel ….’. I think Italians will probably […]
It’s been a while… I’ve been enjoying some fine holidays… Things all started when we finally got word about the elettricista being able to start installing electricity in our house in Italy around Queensday. Normally, I’d be at home for Queensday, ‘coz my house is located right in the district where the best (outdoor) partying […]
In previous posts I documented the process of buying a house in Italy a little bit. In another post I described how we spent the weekend with -10 degrees after having gotten the keys to the house.
After we’ve been to the house in November, Pyke and me also went there in December again, together with […]
I was in Italy again trying to insure the place we bought there (normal insurance in case the house breaks down for some reason), so we visited the bank.
We’re slowly finding out what everybody has been talking about with respect to the Italian way of dealing with things. First of all, at the bank we […]
In previous posts, I document the process a little bit that we went through to buy a house in Valle d’Aosta, Italy. Last November, the moment was finally there: we got the keys for the house and drove up the mountain for the first time as owners of a little place there.
It was COLD! We […]
– this post is part of a series. read the previous part here –
In Holland, we have TV shows that show how people buy houses in foreign countries without decent up-front research. This often results in situations where the people have to spend way more than they’ve initially planned and sometimes even have to sell […]
– this post is part of a series, read the previous post here –
So, after we came back from Costa Rica, we actually didn’t forget about all of this. We actually decided to push this through. Still in Costa Rica, we had come up with the following conditions for the house we wanted to go […]
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