Looking for home!

15 Novembre 2010, 10:02am

Pubblicato da peter.in.wonderland

These are very sad days for me... I'm going to leave England for an indefinite span of time to come back Italy, for my work.

Work, the problem of everyone's life! What would it be if people could live without money? Well, maybe they should have less trouble.

In any case, I have a one-year job in Italy, starting from next month.... and I must go. It's for the crisis: if you have the possibility to work (and also in your field, which is to be taken into account!), you cannot avoid it. It's a problem of conscience!

But there are some unsolved questions concerning my private life... and I don't want to talk about them in this context. Antway, the result is that all is quite complicated and I would like to stay here and not looking for a new flat.

Also, I like this very flat in Cambridge, and I really like this city, its architecture and its weather!

I know that I'm not going to find anything so beautiful in Italy... even though Italy is well known for its natural and architectural beauties!

Well, today I'll start looking for a flat. Any suggestion?

First of all, I'd like a lovely little flat, with some space outside for flowers! Here we have also a garden, but we never use it, so I think a lovely little terrace would be perfect. You know, just to have rosmary, sage, parsley and flowers like gardenia or dahlia! Of course, I want to bring back my two cyclamens!

Moreover, I don't want TV: here we have started our married life without TV and we live very peacefully: I'd like to continue this way.

Then, the matter of wall clocks: we don't have any of theme, but I perfectly understand their utility. We are always late, indeed.... Maybe we should hang up the wall clock of my brother in law, at least, which is also beautiful.

Other problem: the car! Car are expensive and polluting. Here we don't have a car and we move by bicycle, bus and train. It's perfect, the only problem is for shopping, but we do on-line shops! Yes, but in Italy it will be different: We'll need a car to visit parents and sisters and brothers. And also, people in Italy think that if you don't have a car you are just a poor person: they are not open mind and they don't understand that different way to live do exist and, sometimes, they are good too! But there is also a practical matter with car: probably, the nextr year I'll come back England and what will it be of our car? Should we sell it? Well, I can think about this problem in the future: we are not going to buy a car now, thanks God!!!

But I'm loosing my time and I'm conscious of this: the only, very problem is that my home here in England is like a nest in which we find protection in every moment. And that's right, it couldn't be different. And I wonder if we'll find something like this in Italy...

I don't think so, as our experience here, despite all the difficulties, has been great.