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[milan]

Maybe we all are too cooped-up in this Forum and becoming too personal in our take of everyone's word and that includes myself.
So here are some images of Milan today as I spent a day with hubby walking and going on trams around the city since morning until afternoon just to enjoy the lazy and hazy days of summer.

The summertime in Milan.

July 4, 2008.



Oh, by the way --- above is "LA SCALA"

[charlie]

it looks so sunny and warm! the complete opposite to what i have today ....

[milan]

Sorry to hear that the weather on your end is not so good.
Yes, it was sunny and the temperature was just right as it was breezy and cooler than the past few days earlier which was humid and sticky. Today looks the same as yesterday.

It's been an unusual summer as we've been having an alternate rain of hails versus sunny and high humidity so yesterday was the typical summer day which we like very much where hubby and I just went to have our brioche and cappucino for late breakfast then lunch on top floor of this department store overlooking the Duomo Cathedral.

[BaliLife]

Nice pics!

Hey Milan/Chilli, I'm interested in finding some inexpensive land in the south.. Ideally in Sicily.. Would love it if it was an old olive grove or something, but it doesn't need to be big, something with a nice little old 3 bedroom stone house on it.. As a foreigner its very difficult to find something down there without feeling you're getting screwed by some 'in-the-middle' (typically English) broker.. Any suggestions on how to go about finding a place? The property industry there is quite fragmented and very regionalized it seems, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Ct

[milan]

OMG, Balilife. The description you want in a house in Sicily is exactly how the country house of my husband in Sicily is. BUT... it's sold!!! His sister decided to sell it a few years ago.
There's even a vineyard! Olive trees, raspberry and blackberry plants around it.
I used to get a little bit sick of the driving across the hills and valleys in between to go to the seaside on this rocky edge of the sea, especially in the nights as there were no street lights around that it made me dizzy everytime we went home from there. From that coastline, we could go to its town called: Cefalu. I know you'd love it!
A pity!

[BaliLife]

you're very cruel milan!

No really, it sounds like exactly the type of place that I'd love.. Oh well, if you have any ideas about how I might be able to find something similar, please let me know

Ct

[Bert]

Berapa dapat commissi kalau kasih client di Italy?

[BaliLife]

Nggak ngerti maksutnya.. Bert ada client di italy yang mau jual tanahnya disana?

Ct

[mimpimanis]

Why have you started speaking Indonesian

[Bert]

Nggak ngerti maksutnya.. Bert ada client di italy yang mau jual tanahnya disana?
Ct

Tanya Milan ya... Pasti...

[mimpimanis]

haha, how about Lombok Balilife??? Cheaper and a good investment opportunity

[milan]

Mimpimanis, can you speak and write Indonesian?

Aduh...mau berbahasa Indonesia, ya? Bert dan Balilife?
Dibawah adalah jawabannya.
Maksud is written with d. Spelling wise, Bert excells...

Bert, it hasn't crossed my mind but now that you mentioned. The idea tantalises me to do this.

But seriously, if you need any assistance on procuring something from Italy, whatever it is, balilife, if I can do it, i'd be glad to. Also something for your wife, given that I live right in one of the fashion centres of the world. There are things that are worth to get from here direct but not all things. For example: the wife of my nephew asked to get a genuine Louis Vuitton bag from here as in Jakarta the price is way too exorbitant. Well, after calculations on shipment, time, etc., it's not worth it. So, we dropped it.
And as for real estate, once you go through an agent, the costs just skyrocketed.
Next to my place is a very simple and nothing of significance apartment for sale . Through an agent is E 350.000. The owner told me she only asked for E 320.000. You can do the math.

[mimpimanis]

Milan, my Indonesian is not "studied" but what I have picked up from every day life and is Bahasa Pasar. I spend all day with indonesians speaking only indonesian and get by fine but reading and writing is a different matter, especially the likes of a newspaper that uses the correct grammar.

One of the problems I have is that people dont like to correct me so I may be saying somthing for years.... before I find out it is wrong..... and infact in one example my husband has now copied me and says it the "wrong way" lol!

Also if we go outside the realms of daily life..... I get lost. So a conversation about somthing, which we have never discussed before with lots of new & unfamiliar words can really throw me. However I do ask and try to find out what the word is.
One example today when trying to find a road was "tembus" which I still have no idea what it means..... but we did find our way

[milan]

One of the problems I have is that people dont like to correct me so I may be saying somthing for years.... before I find out it is wrong..... and infact in one example my husband has now copied me and says it the "wrong way" lol!

That's because they know already what you mean and not wanting to be rude to correct you. Completely the opposite of Italy. They correct you at times, brusquely, pretending not to know what exactly you mean when one can just use his/her common sense.

Tembus is penetrating, absorbing.
But in the situation you were in today if they say: jalan tembus it means shortcut.

[Bert]

Jalan Tembus is a bit poetic then...

[milan]

Ooo,lala, Bert! If you want it to consider poetic, okay, la?!
It's a shortcut way/road, ok?