Monday 12th May

We got a phone call this morning on the mobile letting us know that a guy would arrive this afternoon to sort out our cable T.V. and that Flavio would also be here to have another go at getting our internet and phone sorted. Fingers crossed that this is the day!! In the meantime we visited the convent to download our emails and pay some bills. Christin was very busy preparing for a classical music festival they would be holding at the convent at the end of the month and asked us if we could maybe give her a hand over the days of the festival and if we could lodge a few people as they didn’t have enough room to house all the musicians, singers and media. Of course this sounded very exciting to us and we happily agreed.

Later in the afternoon we were invaded by Italian experts in T.V. and Internet connections. It still amazes me the way they dress for such an occasion, not at all like our tradesmen, these guys look like they are about to head out for a very important business meeting, immaculately dressed, reeking of aftershave and showing complete confidence in what they are about to do for us! Leon is yet again thrown in the deep end, trying to understand the language and using gestures and some Italian to explain our problems. With the usual theatrics and lots of rapid speech and not to forget lots of bravo’s the Italian T.V. stallions fixed the cable T.V. We now have lots of channels to watch but unfortunately they are all in German and only MTV in English…..Allora! This was the best they could do and it was just tooooo hard not to join in the Bravo celebrations and explain that we don’t understand German*#@!

Still no success with the internet, Flavio decided it was time to call in the big guys from Italy’s telecom, but we would have to wait (of course….).