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our house

We live in a small three-stories house. Maybe it sounds a bit snobby, but it is small indeed. It’s a very beautiful house, with lots of advantages. And disadvantages as well.

It goes like that. You enter through the lower door right in the kitchen (I would prefer to have a separate entrance, and a clean kitchen without dirty shoes and wet umbrellas etc.). In the end of the kitchen there is a bathroom. I don’t like to call it “bathroom” because there is no bathtube in it. On top of it there are stairs to the next floor, which can hardly be called “a room”, because there are no doors in it. Only a fireplace and a window.

Next floor consists of three rooms: bedroom, my room and bathroom. Yet again, there is no proper bathtube there, just a sitting one. Not my size one.

Next floor is connected with the rest of the house with metal screw-like stairs, yet again, not my size. There’s another tiny room right under the roof, that belongs to B. One side of it is supposed to be a storage place, so it is full of empty boxes kept in case if one day we need to store something. There’s another door there, that gets to the same street as the kitchen door, the street of Saint Augustine.

song about house

Some days ago two Russians bought a house in Montalto. On this occasion I’d like to post this old Italian song:

La casa

(Vinicius de Moraes - Sergio Bardotti - Sergio Endrigo)

Era una casa molto carina
senza soffitto, senza cucina;
non si poteva entrarci dentro
perché non c’era il pavimento.
Non si poteva andare a letto
in quella casa non c’era il tetto;
non si poteva far la pipì
perché non c’era vasino lì.
Ma era bella, bella davvero
in Via dei Matti numero zero;
ma era bella, bella davvero
in Via dei Matti numero zero.
There was a nice house -
without ceiling and kitchen,
you could not enter it,
because there was no floor.
You could not go to bed,
because there was no roof,
You could not have a piss,
because was no pot.
But it was really beautiful -
At number zero, Madmen street,
but it was really beautiful -
At number zero, Madmen street

It is a rather precise description of the house they bought  (big walls with some land). If they invest twice as much as they have paid, they will have a really comfortable house.