read my stories

This my blog page where you will find the latest post on top, and years and years of older posts below.
For a more focused way of reading, you can select the Categories underneath My Articles tab at the top !
Enjoy your stay here and check back once in a while!

Italian Blog

In hospital

And then things all went wrong all of a sudden…… I sent my bi-annual poo test in an envelope, thinking nothing of it, as always.

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Grumpy Tales

Shopping Corona-style

So if you think only my good friend Glenn Colin de Kavanagh-Norman can write adventure stories….. think again… . ‘Operation Spesa’ was successful. Today I

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Italian Blog

Ik ben een cultuurbarbaar

Ik heb geen geduld (meer) voor muziek, ben 3 keer in mijn leven naar het Concertgebouw geweest, krimp in elkaar bij opera, vind Picasso een

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Italian Blog

Cotto, the local stones

Good, another step. We have found the hand-made tiles that will go onto our terrace….. the family business at the company below has a great

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Italian Blog

Bureaucracy ad infinito…..

Italy’s bureaucracy: one step forward, 2 backwards 6 months ago we tried to get Nina admitted as resident, but at the town hall they told

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General

Fire !

Never a dull day here in our new place in Italy. Today, while I was cutting down some trees in our ‘garden’, suddenly a black

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Italian Blog

Watch the arms !

One of the things here in Italy you have to watch out for, is not hurt ladies’ hands while driving through the streets of your

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Italian Blog

Far and few between

…. blog posts that is. Let me tell you, working and living in two countries doesn’t leave much time to blog on top of it.

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Italian Blog

We’re moving

Well, we have STARTED to move at least. Just had news from our friends and neighbors in Umbria that the gas/heating system has been fixed…..

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Italian Blog

Stuff that needs sorting

When moving into another place there are many things to be taken care of. When moving into another country, there are many MORE! When we

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Italian Blog

How it all started

It is now way up to the end of March 2014 and we have bought a house in Italy. But as the first ‘post’ in

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