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Forum: Middle East

Aug 31st 2014, 6:35 am

Replies: 12

Quick question about costs and saving in Doha

Views: 1,834

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Quick question about costs and saving in Doha

Thank you for all the details and the answers folks, most reassuring :fingerscrossed:

Forum: Middle East

Aug 14th 2014, 10:03 pm

Replies: 12

Quick question about costs and saving in Doha

Views: 1,834

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Quick question about costs and saving in Doha

Thank you!

I suppose you might say I've got a Vimto lifestyle and tea money...

Forum: Middle East

Aug 14th 2014, 8:17 pm

Replies: 12

Quick question about costs and saving in Doha

Views: 1,834

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Quick question about costs and saving in Doha

Thank you; very helpful :thumbsup:

Forum: Middle East

Aug 14th 2014, 2:15 am

Replies: 12

Quick question about costs and saving in Doha

Views: 1,834

Posted By MrsMonkey

Quick question about costs and saving in Doha

Hi all
Loads of info about costs etc in Doha on here but not quite relevant to me so thought I'd ask again.

I will have a small salary of merely 9060Qrs per month, but accommodation, flights,...

Forum: Italy

Dec 10th 2010, 8:27 am

Replies: 27

sick of being a Billy No-Mates

Views: 3,575

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: sick of being a Billy No-Mates

mikeymus - foreign consulates eh? What a marvellous idea, I'm going to start skulking around the Oz embassy soaking up all the free Ferrero Rocher I can and see what happens. Thanks for the tip.
...

Forum: Italy

Dec 8th 2010, 6:38 am

Replies: 27

sick of being a Billy No-Mates

Views: 3,575

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: sick of being a Billy No-Mates

Awwww, fanks! I'm certainly doing a lot better at it than I was at evening classes in the UK

Forum: Italy

Dec 8th 2010, 5:52 am

Replies: 27

sick of being a Billy No-Mates

Views: 3,575

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: sick of being a Billy No-Mates

I AM learning, just not there yet and it wasn't a complaint, it was a whinge. So there.

Forum: Italy

Dec 8th 2010, 5:06 am

Replies: 27

sick of being a Billy No-Mates

Views: 3,575

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: sick of being a Billy No-Mates

I'm working at an English school, my colleagues are very nice they've just buggered off home to the US of A for Xmas. On top of which, they're not into getting stupidly drunk, going to dodgy rock...

Forum: Italy

Dec 8th 2010, 4:51 am

Replies: 27

sick of being a Billy No-Mates

Views: 3,575

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: sick of being a Billy No-Mates

you're right, of course you're right. I suppose I'm just having a whinge really - everyone I've met is either older with a family and kids or younger with an internship full of other international...

Forum: Italy

Dec 8th 2010, 3:10 am

Replies: 27

sick of being a Billy No-Mates

Views: 3,575

Posted By MrsMonkey

sick of being a Billy No-Mates

So I'm finding it impossible to meet people in Rome - obviously it doesn't help that I know bugger-all Italian and work a lot; this I get. There's all these ace clubs and bars but I don't want to go...

Forum: Italy

Sep 27th 2010, 12:28 am

Replies: 10

Anyone in Rome fancy alleviating my boredom?

Views: 1,180

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Anyone in Rome fancy alleviating my boredom?

Mine is much more simple:

How do you sell a midget a horse?
Bend down real low and say 'would you like to buy a horse'

More of a visual gag but works

Forum: Italy

Sep 26th 2010, 4:58 am

Replies: 10

Anyone in Rome fancy alleviating my boredom?

Views: 1,180

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Anyone in Rome fancy alleviating my boredom?

Christina, I know just the place for gratuitously oversized icecreams - they also do sort of semi-frozen mousse in various lardy flavours. Wine is also a plan made of solid gold. If you like, just PM...

Forum: Italy

Sep 25th 2010, 9:40 pm

Replies: 10

Anyone in Rome fancy alleviating my boredom?

Views: 1,180

Posted By MrsMonkey

Anyone in Rome fancy alleviating my boredom?

I moved here a couple of weeks ago and haven't had time to meet anyone except my colleagues (all two of them) from school. Also, I went to an expats thing and it was more full of Italian people...

Forum: Italy

Sep 25th 2010, 9:34 pm

Replies: 41

whta are you listening to?

Views: 3,363

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: whta are you listening to?

Mike Patton's new (ish) Mondo Cane album because I adore the man but also because I want to learn il cielo in una stanza to impress the kids in my English class.

Which brings me to a different...

Forum: Al Fresco

Sep 12th 2010, 2:40 am

Replies: 42

Homesickness

Views: 3,310

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Homesickness

I've only been here a week so it's too early for me to think about being homesick for Birmingham but one thing I've noticed is that all the English speakers I've met so far are American. They are all...

Forum: Italy

Sep 12th 2010, 2:27 am

Replies: 8

MOVING TO SICILY IN OCTOBER BUT... ROME

Views: 1,275

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: MOVING TO SICILY IN OCTOBER BUT... ROME

If you've done the biggies (vatican, colosseum, forum, spanish steps etc) and she hasn't, why not do them again a slightly different way eg. in a horse-drawn thingy like they have at Piazza Spagna? ...

Forum: Italy

Sep 12th 2010, 2:22 am

Replies: 8

Flying cats in to Italy questions...

Views: 1,178

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Flying cats in to Italy questions...

I can't help you, I'm sorry, but I just wanted to say that I flick-read the post title and saw 'flying cats in Italy'. I was very excited for a moment there.

Good luck finding the information you...

Forum: Italy

Aug 16th 2010, 3:05 am

Replies: 21

Hello and buongiorno from another newbie

Views: 2,214

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Hello and buongiorno from another newbie

HA!

Forum: Italy

Aug 16th 2010, 2:29 am

Replies: 21

Hello and buongiorno from another newbie

Views: 2,214

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Hello and buongiorno from another newbie

Not one of those monkeys mate. Might I suggest she gives her pile-ring a rinse and try ebay?

Forum: Italy

Aug 16th 2010, 1:26 am

Replies: 21

Hello and buongiorno from another newbie

Views: 2,214

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Hello and buongiorno from another newbie

That's a great website, thanks very much :)

Forum: Italy

Aug 12th 2010, 8:12 pm

Replies: 21

Hello and buongiorno from another newbie

Views: 2,214

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Hello and buongiorno from another newbie

Yaaay! Thanks everyone :thumbsup:

Forum: Italy

Aug 12th 2010, 3:50 am

Replies: 21

Hello and buongiorno from another newbie

Views: 2,214

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Hello and buongiorno from another newbie

Another vaguely technological question: I've just bought a cheapo phone to take with me to Italy because mine is virtually dead. It's a 2G but my friend is convinced it will work in Italy, even...

Forum: Italy

Aug 12th 2010, 12:18 am

Replies: 17

Living in Naples

Views: 11,202

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Living in Naples

Have you seen the film Gomorrah? Ignoring the main story about the Neapolitan mafia (organised crime is something you're pretty unlikely to get caught up in), it does show you some of the poorer...

Forum: Italy

Aug 5th 2010, 10:44 pm

Replies: 54

Ryanair - latest trick

Views: 8,985

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Ryanair - latest trick

There's a joke about Ryanair going round the office at the moment, mostly based on its ridiculous 'extras' charges for bags and whatnot:

Michael O'Leary goes into the pub at Temple Bar and asks...

Forum: Italy

Aug 5th 2010, 8:20 pm

Replies: 21

Hello and buongiorno from another newbie

Views: 2,214

Posted By MrsMonkey

Re: Hello and buongiorno from another newbie

Well I know the UK is in the process of going digital so all new UK TVs should be digital. Whether or not that will be compatible with the Italian set-up is probably a different question.

Thanks...

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