Well the house is ours :)

So the house is officially ours and Richard moved into it on Sat. Apparently there are about one billion keys that go along with it. A different one for every door, and a variety of locks that are around the house. The main key is an old school skeleton type key apparently. How freaking cool is that!?!? What happens when you need to get a key cut though???? Those of you that know me well know that I'm really not good with my keys and I lose them frequently.

Apparently some things still need to be done in the house but the landlord went on vacay so it will be a week or two before they are back and everything gets finished. In the meantime Richard dropped into Ikea and kitted us out with the basics such as linen and dishes, which apparently don't come with a furnished home in Italy :) Silly us.

He slept with the windows open on Sunday night and said the cuckoos were driving him insane, plus it "sounded like a goose was coughing downstairs" yep those were his exact words. The geese outside were apparently too noisy for his liking. And the village bell tower clock chimes on the hour all night long AND on the quarter, half and quarter to as well, lovely. I'm sure we'll get used to it, and it looks like we'll be sleeping with windows closed and AC on!!!

I already have a list of things I have to bring with me that are really random such as: Costco sized Ibuprofen gel caps, fake wasp nests from Canadian Tire, Travel adaptors since there are apparently TWO types of standard plugs in Italy and Richard bought all the kitchen appliances in the OTHER type :)

But....we have a place to live, with AC, bug screens and a dryer so I can't complain!!!!!

And one flies the coop

So Richard leaves for Milan today!!! He flies at 1pm, we'll be heading to the airport in a few hours. His boss wants him to go to Paris this weekend to watch Lance finish his last Tour de France. HOW JEALOUS AM I!?!?!?!?!
He's meeting our estate agent on Sat to look at the two places we liked and hopefully he can choose one and get them all over fixing it up. I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not going to have a dishwasher, I'm probably not going to have a dryer or airconditioning and I might have to learn to cook with gas!!!! The big sell on the rental places there is that they have bug screens in the windows!! hahahaha apparently bug screens are NOT common in Italy and if you can't afford screens you either rig something up or sleep under one of those Out of Africa bug canopies above your bed!!
I did a tour of the village that we want to live in on Google Maps and it seems nice, small but nice. I was happy to see an english speaking hair dresser in the piazza...or at least I'm assuming with a sign like Angela's Hair Design, someone there speaks my language!!!!
I also found the Milano 3 Sporting Club in Basiglio which has child minding and I don't care what it costs I'm having a membership!
All right, better go get ready to eject the first Burwell on his Italian adventure, Stay tuned!