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Forum: Italy
May 2nd 2008, 4:22 am
Replies: 12
Views: 11,933
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Can you buy full fat pasteurised milk for baby?

How many bonus points do I get? :) You're welcome.
Forum: Italy
May 2nd 2008, 4:15 am
Replies: 12
Views: 11,933
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Can you buy full fat pasteurised milk for baby?

Well, the bottle in my fridge is 'pastorizzato'. And since it's primarilly a baby drink in Italy, and Italian mamas are more hypocondriach-by-proxy than any other mothers, I can only assume that all...
Forum: Italy
May 2nd 2008, 4:09 am
Replies: 12
Views: 11,933
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Can you buy full fat pasteurised milk for baby?

It's not as popular in Italy, and it's more expensive, but full-fat milk is easily available. Look for 'latte fresco' (fresh milk) and 'interno' for full-fat. It usually comes in plastic bottles (but...
Forum: Italy
Apr 28th 2008, 9:42 pm
Replies: 61
Views: 14,403
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Fed up in Le Marche, looking for somewhere new...

I'm don't want to put anyone off coming to Italy, and my post should be taken in the context of having one of those "I hate Italy" days, which I'm sure everyone has at one time or another.

I...
Forum: Italy
Apr 28th 2008, 10:03 am
Replies: 61
Views: 14,403
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Fed up in Le Marche, looking for somewhere new...

If I were you, I would pick a town with at least 100,000 people, a thriving student scene, and enough ex-pats so that you don't feel isolated.

You haven't replied to your earlier thread - have you...
Forum: Italy
Apr 28th 2008, 8:06 am
Replies: 156
Views: 47,804
Posted By welsh_john

Re: LIVING IN ITALY - A LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP

The graffiti REALLY bugs me. In fact, I would go so far as to say that it put a major downer on trips to Rome and Florence. I know that some of it is done by foreigners, but a hell of a lot was...
Forum: Italy
Apr 27th 2008, 10:01 am
Replies: 22
Views: 1,683
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Humour: Lost in translation, or simply lost on them?

I wonder if they were being sarcastic? On second thoughts...
Forum: Italy
Apr 27th 2008, 9:42 am
Replies: 22
Views: 1,683
Posted By welsh_john

Humour: Lost in translation, or simply lost on them?

There was a suggestion in my whingeing thread that wit is lost on the Italians. My own experiences of being met with blank looks, not to mention Italian TV, would support this theory...

Please...
Forum: Italy
Apr 27th 2008, 9:32 am
Replies: 61
Views: 14,403
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Fed up in Le Marche, looking for somewhere new...

The national anthem was drilled into me in school, and I had a Welsh nationalist grandmother who spoke to me in Welsh and told me it was my duty to hate the English. Fortunately I didn't listen,...
Forum: Italy
Apr 27th 2008, 9:22 am
Replies: 61
Views: 14,403
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Fed up in Le Marche, looking for somewhere new...

Yes, no, yes. 2/3. Do I pass the Welsh test? :)
Forum: Italy
Apr 27th 2008, 9:17 am
Replies: 61
Views: 14,403
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Fed up in Le Marche, looking for somewhere new...

Actually, I fell asleep on the sofa while listening to Radio 4 online, and tingling with sunburn!

I just read back over this and the bidet thread, and they are most enlightening... how odd that...
Forum: Italy
Apr 27th 2008, 9:10 am
Replies: 61
Views: 14,403
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Fed up in Le Marche, looking for somewhere new...

Well, I did go to Florence a few weeks ago, and made friends with an American girl on the first day... anyway, potential sexual adventures aside, it was a glorious place, and somewhere I could well...
Forum: Italy
Apr 27th 2008, 6:40 am
Replies: 61
Views: 14,403
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Fed up in Le Marche, looking for somewhere new...

Back from the hills and transformed from a mozzarella into a tomato... I'm a walking insalata caprese!

Actually, it was all quite agreeable; we ate well beneath a soothing Spring sun, and I played...
Forum: Italy
Apr 27th 2008, 6:23 am
Replies: 160
Views: 18,715
Posted By welsh_john

Re: TO BIDET OR NOT TO BIDET? - 100 different uses ....

I finally had an experimental go on my bidet, and while not unpleasant, I had no idea how to dry my... umm... posterior. I didn't fancy using my face towel, and I thought that toilet roll would just...
Forum: Italy
Apr 26th 2008, 9:17 pm
Replies: 61
Views: 14,403
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Fed up in Le Marche, looking for somewhere new...

Thank you all for your input - I do appreciate it. I wish you were all my neighbours! In fact, my real neighbours (Albanian) are the friendliest lot I've met so far! Perhaps they sypmathise...
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Forum: Italy
Apr 26th 2008, 10:56 am
Replies: 61
Views: 14,403
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Fed up in Le Marche, looking for somewhere new...

Hello Yellowdog,

Thank you for taking the time to reply. It's nice to know that I'm not some socially retarded freak show incapable of making friends.

Like many, I had a romanticised idea about...
Forum: Italy
Apr 26th 2008, 9:26 am
Replies: 61
Views: 14,403
Posted By welsh_john

Fed up in Le Marche, looking for somewhere new...

Hello all,

As I may have mentioned in another thread, I live in Marche - in a fair sized university town - which one might think would be a fun and friendly place to be. That's what I thought...
Forum: Italy
Apr 23rd 2008, 8:34 am
Replies: 86
Views: 5,611
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Good Books

Hello all. An Amazon order arrived the other day, and I'm about a third of the way through An Italian Education by Tim Parks, and it's absolutely fantastic so far. Has anyone read Italian Neighbours...
Forum: Italy
Apr 23rd 2008, 8:31 am
Replies: 19
Views: 11,790
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Pay as you go mobiles in Italy

This is true, but I found the DIY top-up cards really complicated at first, with some woman speaking at supersonic speed (at least on Vodafone), so I find it easier to top up over the counter... but...
Forum: Italy
Apr 22nd 2008, 10:15 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 1,014
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Anyone live in or know someone in Rome ?

I heard about this scheme a while ago - http://www.couchsurfing.com.

People letting their sofa beds really cheaply - primarilly aimed at backpackers I think. Could be worth a go. There seem to be...
Forum: Italy
Apr 22nd 2008, 10:01 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 11,790
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Pay as you go mobiles in Italy

Make sure your handsets are "unlocked" - ie. can they take any SIM card, or are they set to only work with Orange, etc.? A little corner mobile phone shop in the UK can unlock handsets for about a...
Forum: Italy
Apr 22nd 2008, 9:52 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 6,205
Posted By welsh_john

Re: JUST RIDICULOUS - what silly, strange or weird statements have you been given?

My female (Italian) friend informed me that she was ill all last winter (2006/2007) because "it wasn't cold enough".

It seems that unless the seasons behave themselves, and follow an orderly...
Forum: Italy
Apr 22nd 2008, 9:21 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 1,043
Posted By welsh_john

Re: Advice Please

As you haven't yet arrived, I suggest that if you consider doing CELTA (Cambridge Certificate in Enlish Language Teaching to Adults), as it would enable you could get a job in a language school as an...
Forum: Italy
Apr 22nd 2008, 9:08 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 1,486
Posted By welsh_john

Re: ITALIAN IN MY ENGLISH ?!

'Shall we go to the centro?'

'I don't know if we should do a secondo, or just stick with pasta.'

'So-and-so's brother is such a mammone - he doesn't lift a finger!'

and of course, ciao has...
Forum: Italy
Apr 19th 2008, 2:56 am
Replies: 26
Views: 2,008
Posted By welsh_john

Re: HAVE A LAUGH AND THEN LEARN .....easy mistakes to make in Italian

A bit rude this one... sorry!

A couple of weeks ago I used my logic, and tried turning the word for key ("la chiave") into a verb, meaning "to lock".

However, "devo chiavare la porta", means,...
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