For some reason unclear my new credit card never turned up. I contacted the credit card issuers and was told that it had been sent off on the 30th of November! As the new card had not come back to them they also gave be a number to use at the post office, which I understand to be a recorded … [Read more...]
Speeding fines in Italy, again, and Pisa…
January 4, 2007 By 14 Comments
It's official, the article in the Telegraph I read while I was in the UK would seem to indicate that Euro traffic fines will shortly be with us. The same article is available on-line here. Although this change comes into effect in March 2007, as some who have read this blog will have noticed, the … [Read more...]
Not such a happy new year
January 4, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Some friends of ours came back to Milan after the Christmas break to find that home sweet home wasn't.First of all their flat had been broken into and jewellery and other items had been removed, then, as if to add insult to injury, cracks, caused by work taking place on the floor above, were … [Read more...]
Some facts I picked up while in the UK
January 4, 2007 By Leave a Comment
According to what I have heard the UK politicos spent 7 hours debating the UK's intervention in Iraq, whereas all these bright people devoted over 200 hours to the banning of fox hunting. No I'm not a great fan of foxhunting, or the war in Iraq, but it does seem mad to have spent such a tiny … [Read more...]
Back to Italy Again
January 4, 2007 By Leave a Comment
We got back to our appartment in Milan at one on Tuesday morning and so we spent Wednesday recovering a little. Christmas had been spent with my parents in their house which is tucked away in one of the late Lord Lambton's estates near Chester le Street in the north of the UK (Lord Lambton died … [Read more...]
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