As Christmas approached, I figured I should end the year in style and spend the last days of the year abroad. I could have lazily spend them at home, but hey, what’s better than looking at the weather predictions, finding out there’s going to be a whole pile of snow coming in the Alps and […]
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I just had my worst travel day ever. I was travelling back from Perloz (Italy) to Utrecht. Everything went fine until I entered the A5 to Milano. Due to the fog there was a big traffic jam and I ended up at Milano Malpensa airport an hour later than expected, at about 7pm instead of […]
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 […]
The conference season is slowly getting started again. This is my schedule for the coming three to four months:
JavaZone: one of the biggest Java conference in the world is hosted in Oslo. I’m presenting a session provocatively titled ‘Spring == XML, XML == suck therefore Spring == sucks??’. That should be fun.
Straight after JavaZone I’m […]
Casa Pura Vida - the renovation part II, III and IV
Published July 29th, 2008 in Abroad and housing. 4 CommentsIt’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, […]
Casa Pura Vida part - start of the renovation
Published March 7th, 2008 in Abroad and housing. 4 CommentsIn 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 […]
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 […]
Back in 2005, when in Costa Rica with a couple of friends of mine, we decided to start investigating the possibility to buy a small summer house somewhere. At first, we thought Costa Rica would be a nice place to do something like this, but after flying back to Holland a week or so later, […]
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