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Nov 28th 2009, 12:17 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 1,081
Posted By katu

Re: Losing your spanish after returning home.

It is virtually impossible to keep up a language (fluently) unless you use it everyday, I've heard people say you need 20 hours a week, but does this really matter? Your kids will be better at all...
Forum: Italy
Nov 23rd 2009, 9:23 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 9,261
Posted By katu

Re: Watching Italian TV in UK

Sorry, I wasn't very helpful before!

If you search for "live streaming canale 5" or rai channels you will find the slightly dodgier sites which do allow you to watch. Just tried it myself and...
Forum: Italy
Nov 23rd 2009, 8:54 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 9,261
Posted By katu

Re: Watching Italian TV in UK

My OH wached La Corrida live the other week, I can't imagine that he did anything more technical than searching for canale 5 on google? The same for Rai uno and due.
Nov 20th 2009, 6:10 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 19,687
Posted By katu

Re: Places to live near Bracknell?

I know there is flooding in England at the mo, but if the river Loddon has made it to Wargrave we are all doomed :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Wargrave is fairly expensive, but cheaper than Sonning,...
Forum: Italy
Nov 14th 2009, 10:07 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 1,028
Posted By katu

Re: Gasolio for heating - costs anyone??

LOL Testa.....when I saw your house link last night, my first thought was "you'll never heat it"!

When we first moved we ran the house at normal British temperatures and it cost us £600/1000 euros...
Forum: Italy
Aug 27th 2009, 7:33 pm
Replies: 7
Views: 815
Posted By katu

Re: Florence

Have to disagree about Lucca.....hiring bikes and spending an hour riding around the walls is fantastic fun. There are lots of lovely play parks in Lucca too on the way around if you need to stop for...
Aug 23rd 2009, 9:14 pm
Replies: 13
Views: 1,665
Posted By katu

Re: Moving to UK - if's & maybe's - am I dreaming?

When we returned from Italy my son went straight into year 2 in England, having never been to school before (not old enough for the Italian system). He did very well and was in the top half of the...
Aug 22nd 2009, 11:41 pm
Replies: 31
Views: 4,082
Posted By katu

Re: Tired, sad and homesick...

He cannot understand how it feels, so don't be too hard on him. If you had never emigrated, you would not understand how all-consuming home-sickness is.

Is he open to a trip to England for a week...
Aug 8th 2009, 7:28 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 3,282
Posted By katu

Re: Advice in moving to SouthEast England

Just looked at your original post again....for good transport links to London by train look at; Henley, Shiplake, Wargrave, Twyford, Maidenhead, Reading, Windsor. Trains every hour at the very least....
Aug 8th 2009, 7:25 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 3,282
Posted By katu

Re: Advice in moving to SouthEast England

Marlow is a lovely small town with good transport links to the M40 and M4. There are many lovely villages surrounding it. Maidenhead is generally nice, has OK shopping and cinemas, although it has...
Aug 6th 2009, 10:33 pm
Replies: 14
Views: 3,153
Posted By katu

Re: LEAVING USA TO GIVE BIRTH IN UK

If you have made the US your home and are happy with that decision, why would you even consider a temporary move to the UK to give birth? Giving birth is emotional enough without deliberately being...
Aug 5th 2009, 10:47 pm
Replies: 37
Views: 2,645
Posted By katu

Re: Returning? Did I ever leave?

I have never lived or spent more than a long weekend in Spain, so I am not one to comment on the situation there. But the British do seem to have a certain arrogance with regards to local...
Forum: Italy
Aug 5th 2009, 10:38 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 875
Posted By katu

Re: UK Nintendo Wii/Italian TV set

forgot to add, it is not an old cube game, just a Wii one.

katu.
Forum: Italy
Aug 5th 2009, 10:37 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 875
Posted By katu

Re: UK Nintendo Wii/Italian TV set

I thought the same...however the only language this game doesn't run in is English. Annoying, because it must have been translated from the original recording in English in the first place!! It is a...
Aug 5th 2009, 10:11 pm
Replies: 37
Views: 2,645
Posted By katu

Re: Returning? Did I ever leave?

If you have moved to Spain as an initial holiday I presume that you have not claimed to be non-resident for certain tax purposes? If this is the case is the UK aware that you have been living abroad?...
Forum: Italy
Aug 5th 2009, 9:57 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 875
Posted By katu

Re: UK Nintendo Wii/Italian TV set

Just to completely set your worries aside, we bought our Wii in Italy and plugged it into an Italian TV, then we moved back and plugged the whole lot into the UK without any bother. We have since...
Jul 29th 2009, 7:55 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,111
Posted By katu

Re: confused and lost please advice?

With regards to needing an address to apply for schools....do your parents or other relatives live anywhere where you'd like to live in the UK? If so you can apply with their address as long as you...
Forum: Italy
Jul 23rd 2009, 9:22 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 676
Posted By katu

Re: So....what do you really miss

I've been back in England for nearly a year now, and the Italian stuff I miss is...... the coffee bars, the HUGE peppers, schiaciatta (sp?), buying wine by the 5 litre from the vineyards, the fun to...
Forum: Italy
Jul 5th 2009, 8:37 pm
Replies: 35
Views: 1,716
Posted By katu

Re: Stray cat dilemma!

Hi Sarah,


We had a "garden cat" named Piero who was covered in ticks and lice, very scrawny and terrified of our feet, when we first arrived in our house (also about 20 minutes from Florence)....
Forum: Italy
Jun 3rd 2009, 7:57 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 1,363
Posted By katu

Re: Moving house contents

We did it ourselves both ways and did not have a problem at all. If you drive an Italian truck you should not be stopped in Switzerland, every other vehicle crossing the border is Italian.

The...
May 31st 2009, 7:30 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 3,081
Posted By katu

Re: Have you benefited from living abroad?

I appreciate how very difficult life is for foreigners, in any country. I also really value being surrounded by people who have a similar outlook and background, who get sarcasm (god I missed every...
May 14th 2009, 8:35 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 526
Posted By katu

Re: Any know about Income Tax?

If it has not changed too much in the last three years you will get about £11 a week tax credits and about £110 a month child benefit. (thats what we use to get when our situation was the same as...
May 11th 2009, 9:18 pm
Replies: 70
Views: 10,394
Posted By katu

Re: New pics from the newly returned

Not the Wormsley estate, and not Oxford either.... a wood which I do not know the name of near a village called Harpsden.
Forum: Italy
May 10th 2009, 11:35 am
Replies: 6
Views: 723
Posted By katu

Re: Freelance versus Permanent

If you can freelance then I would definitely recommend it, at least for the first year or so whilst you find your feet. Jobs in Italy are hard to come by, especially as you do not speak the language....
Forum: Italy
May 9th 2009, 7:08 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 524
Posted By katu

Re: Travel Advice

All the schools in Italy break up for the long summer break at the beginning of June so booking might be a good idea.
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