Welcome to Chiaramonti....

The date is May 14th and we are now officially relocated to our new home and what a difference it is from the old life we left behind in grey old London;goodbye commuting, goodbye corporate lifestyle, goodbye ripoff Britain !"F@*k them all!"(that was Mick's contribution to this blog).
I do not think I will ever get bored of looking at the clear Azure blue skies that dominate the views.
We arrive with very little, just the animals and a few meager possessions. I hope the delivery van with all our furniture and goods arrive soon ( how wrong I am...we have to wait another 6 weeks for that. Still it gives me time to explore the village and surrounding countryside )
At first I venture cautiously into the village - to the small but impressively stocked mini market around the corner and the wonderful organic fruit and veg shop with wonky cucumbers and mutant large red pepper that you would have to pay a small fortune for back in the UK. I have to point at things as my dictionary is with all our worldly possessions winging its way slowly to Sardinia.

I can tell that we are the focus of curiosity in the village but my Italian is zero right now and communication is rudimentary, positively Neanderthalic just pointing and grunting at this stage.



The new house is wonderful! a far cry from the big old Victorian town house I left back in London; this place is simple and very charming with all its quirky features and 1 meter thick walls.It was our estate agents - Sylvana's mothers old property in the original medieval part of the village and it is full of possibilities.


The Kitchen is the main feature to this house with an original fireplace and pizza oven - which we have to block up for now as the cats keep disappearing up it and coming back down a different colour. Still I can see beyond the horrid brown kitchen units and see a very modern style kitchen design emerging





The Bedrooms are light and spacious I have managed to talk/convince/manipulate Mick into taking the bedroom at the back of the house not that the views are any different, just that mine is bigger!As you can see the beds where very basic, Mick managed to collapse his on the first night and ended up take the spare from my room.


I can see in spite of our meager existence for now that we will be very happy here. The house has a very warm feel to it - and that's not just because its May in Sardinia!




We even have a small sitting area upstairs which will become our TV room - when it gets here! still I have the laptop with me(no internet connection yet!) and a half dozen DVD to keep us amused - 6 weeks is a long time to keep watching the same films! Have to be careful that I don't catch cabin fever and end up "doing a Jack Nicholas" with the axe that I brought.....Note I have an axe but no dictionary! where were my priorities when it came to packing?