Tuscany in our DB9 Volante

Tuscany in our DB9 Volante

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Borgoking

202 posts

178 months

Friday 7th September 2018
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[quote=Rosanne]

There is one fly in the ointment. The Tuscan roads are not like they were fifteen years ago when we last toured in our V12 DB7 Volante. It's harder to find the dreamy,open roads anymore. The roadworks are everywhere, the surfaces are like tank traps and the quantity of heavy lorries are a bloody nightmare.............in other words just like the U.K. Mind you, the sunshine is fabulous !

I know where you are coming from regarding the roads, we drove over the Morandi Bridge in Genova at exactly the same time (11.30 am) the day before it crashed......... We are back down to Tuscany again in just over a weeks time via the
South of France this time, however, still got to find a route around Genova though.

Neil1300r

5,487 posts

177 months

Friday 7th September 2018
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Bincenzo said:
Could you just tell me again how much your husband spent on that watch please? I don’t think I caught it the first few times you felt the need to tell us all..... rolleyes
£14k apparently

https://www.watchbuyers.co.uk/watches-for-sale-c12...

whistle

james-witton

1,363 posts

106 months

Friday 7th September 2018
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Please don’t take these comments to heart OP. It’s just The self levelling PH system at work.
Hope you had a great time.

Rosanne

Original Poster:

420 posts

191 months

Friday 7th September 2018
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james-witton said:
Please don’t take these comments to heart OP. It’s just The self levelling PH system at work.
Hope you had a great time.
Thank you James. I don't take these comments to heart. We're only half way through our holiday and, having been to the Ferrari Museo, we are now looking forward to going to the Alfa Museum in Milan next week.
Ciao.

Rosanne

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420 posts

191 months

Friday 7th September 2018
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Neil1300r said:
Hi,
You may think that your suggested watch is the same. It is not. First of all your suggested one, whilst doubtless perfect, was first bought by someone else. It's papers will therefore be in the name of the first purchaser, making it effectively second hand, and its guarantee will almost certainly have expired.
Hubbie's ' watch is number one in a very limited edition of solid rose gold.. It also has an eight day power reserve not three. Moreover, it is inscribed with a dedication from the Decima Flottiglia MAS, an Italian naval unit from WW2, against whom Hubbie's dad fought in motor torpedo boats in the Mediterranean. It also has a lifetime guarantee.
Not quite the same watch methinks.
Ciao.

avinalarf

6,438 posts

141 months

Friday 7th September 2018
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Rosanne said:
Hi,
You may think that your suggested watch is the same. It is not. First of all your suggested one, whilst doubtless perfect, was first bought by someone else. It's papers will therefore be in the name of the first purchaser, making it effectively second hand, and its guarantee will almost certainly have expired.
Hubbie's ' watch is number one in a very limited edition of solid rose gold.. It also has an eight day power reserve not three. Moreover, it is inscribed with a dedication from the Decima Flottiglia MAS, an Italian naval unit from WW2, against whom Hubbie's dad fought in motor torpedo boats in the Mediterranean. It also has a lifetime guarantee.
Not quite the same watch methinks.
Ciao.
Go girl....go.
I wondered what you'd be doin' after you were axed from your TV show.
I'm sitting in Napoli aeroporto a tad bored with two hours to go before take off.
I've just spent the week in Ischia in a 6 star hotel that cost loadsa money.
I've bought a couple of Cartiers per mia moglia and several solid gold JLC reversos for myself.
Red gold,white gold and yellow gold plus I got an extra lifetime's guarantee for when I'm resurrected.
Don't listen to the misanthropic fogeys on here, they're jealous cos they haven't got loadsa money like we have.
p.s. mine is inscribed with a special message from the capo of the local Naples mafia and a blessing from the Pope.
Not quite the same watch methinks.
Ah ha.






Edited by avinalarf on Friday 7th September 18:46

ace of the base

172 posts

196 months

Friday 7th September 2018
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My Sekonda keeps jolly good time and impresses all the guys here in the pub.

Buster73

5,043 posts

152 months

Friday 7th September 2018
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ace of the base said:
My Sekonda keeps jolly good time and impresses all the guys here in the pub.
My watch keeps jolly good time , the guys in the pub haven’t got a clue I even wear one never mind know what the name of the company that made it.

Rosanne

Original Poster:

420 posts

191 months

Friday 7th September 2018
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avinalarf said:
Go girl....go.
I wondered what you'd be doin' after you were axed from your TV show.
I'm sitting in Napoli aeroporto a tad bored with two hours to go before take off.
I've just spent the week in Ischia in a 6 star hotel that cost loadsa money.
I've bought a couple of Cartiers per mia moglia and several solid gold JLC reversos for myself.
Red gold,white gold and yellow gold plus I got an extra lifetime's guarantee for when I'm resurrected.
Don't listen to the misanthropic fogeys on here, they're jealous cos they haven't got loadsa money like we have.
p.s. mine is inscribed with a special message from the capo of the local Naples mafia and a blessing from the Pope.
Not quite the same watch methinks.
Ah ha.

Oh, amigo, I just love your response. Such deft humour.

I omitted to mention that Gramps served with Phillip the Greek in WW2 ; so, for me at least, being an adherent to that religion espoused by Martin Luther, a blessing on Hubbie's watch from both him and the Archbishop of Canterbury should suffice.
Regrettably, try though I may, my social calendar does not permit a meeting with Phil until the end of the grouse shooting season next year. I have told him to be patient, but as we all know, he is a law unto himself. Dear Bish, of course, doing anything for a free lunch at Claridges, merely awaits my call the very moment I return .






Edited by avinalarf on Friday 7th September 18:46

Blackpuddin

16,411 posts

204 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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OP does seem somewhat engaged by the price of stuff. Are we meant to be impressed?

Rosanne

Original Poster:

420 posts

191 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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B4rnst4ble said:
Nice car op
Why is the reg number for a 2003 ford connect ?
No idea, compadre, no idea. Apart from my Quatrofoglio and my V8 Audi Quattro Avant
( which have consecutive number plates ), all of Hubbie's cars are consecutive in the PIL series, even the 1940 Lagonda drop head tourer, which is presently undergoing a light cosmetic restoration. PIL plates are the initials of his company and are as cheap as chips.
I think that the last one cost about four grand and was bought out of the petty cash account.

P.S. Here's a helpful word of advice. Please, please, please don't buy any PIL plates in the hope we'd buy them from you. We have more than enough. Not only that, but Hubby has now started buying plates with his and my initials. Ciao.

B4rnst4ble

790 posts

148 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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My mistake there is a van with a very similar number plate a road away from me ending 2000
I have no wish to sell you anything

macdeb

8,492 posts

254 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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Lost for words on this post rolleyes
Tell me it's a wind up (pun intended).

RobDown

3,803 posts

127 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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There are some on the Alfa Forums who think Roseanne is actually some fantasist bloke who got kicked out of the Alfa Owners Club and has some connection (which I can’t work out) with jail time and firearms

I sincerely hope they’re wrong as I find the OPs many posts across PH make for very entertaining reading and I hope s(he) is genuine

ruhall

506 posts

145 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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I thought I was on Facebook for a couple of seconds when I first started reading this thread, then realised I never use it for some reason.

Rosanne

Original Poster:

420 posts

191 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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RobDown said:
There are some on the Alfa Forums who think Roseanne is actually some fantasist bloke who got kicked out of the Alfa Owners Club and has some connection (which I can’t work out) with jail time and firearms

I sincerely hope they’re wrong as I find the OPs many posts across PH make for very entertaining reading and I hope s(he) is genuine
j

I have most certainly never been kicked out of any club, well,motoring club anyway, although I was once asked to leave a committee meeting of the VSCC since my skirt was too short. I I have also been refused entrance to a couple of West End night clubs for my erstwhile habit of gradually sliding under the table, especially when the Krug has flowed liberally.

Hubby was many years ago banned from either the Ferarri Owners or Porsche Drivers Club forums ( maybe both, he can't remember.......too much Hennessy brandy, too little brain ),
because, being partly South African he once used the word k----r in a post he submitted; but, even then he was being complimentary in saying that they made the best trackers when he is on a lion shoot and,indeed, owed his life to one. Yes, he was arrested in South Africa for firing several bursts from his Sterling SMG at the terrorists to keep them away, but he sold up and buggered off to Switzerland before anyone would give evidence. Wouldn't you ?

No, for good or bad, I am as genuine as the nose on your face, and hopefully a f--k sight prettier !


RobDown

3,803 posts

127 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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Ah, you’ve seen my nose then? Fair cop biggrin

Rosanne

Original Poster:

420 posts

191 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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Blackpuddin said:
OP does seem somewhat engaged by the price of stuff. Are we meant to be impressed?
Dear Blackpuddin,

Am I, perchance, talking to a fellow Lancastrian ( I'm a Bury girl ). Please be neither impressed nor unimpressed. The price I quoted for Hubbie's new gold watch was about half of what was paid for it. Did you by any chance read recently of our Aston being used in a film shoot in Florence a few days ago ? Are you aware of the gifts of Goody Bags made to celebs ?
Well, for our sins we were given one. I am not so boastful as to say what was in it, suffice it to say that it included a beautiful Swiss made chronometer. Hubby already had the same one in his collection of watches, so he sensibly offered it as p/x towards his new watch. Deal done and dusted !

Rosanne

Original Poster:

420 posts

191 months

Sunday 9th September 2018
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Yesterday we left our hotel in the mountains overlooking Pistoia. The road down into the valley is like a mini Stelvio Pass. Coming up towards us we narrowly avoided a beautiful white AMG C63 which swung a tad wide on a bend. The girl driving it changed seats with her passenger, who then reversed the Merc several hundred yards down the hill. They then got out and asked if they could take some pics of the Aston, including one of the girl sitting in the drivers seat. Graciously, the Mercedes driver then asked if he could take one of me at the wheel. The Merc was registered German, but I think the driver must have been Austrian, he was so charming. Hubby sat in a nearby hedge, growling, scratching his crotch ( mosquitoes seem to like his blood with so much 16 old Lagavulin in it ) and smoking a fag.

What IS the rule of who reverses in this situation ? I need to tell Hubby.

El Toro

132 posts

97 months

Sunday 9th September 2018
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1) Apologies for letting the prescriptive text mis-spell your name.
2) Your comment about chaps only having 2 wrists.....ladies only have 2 feet and 2 shoulders but this does not seem to limit the number of shoes or handbags they like to buy;)
3) Your Car looks lovely.
4) I am confused if your filming fee was Euro or USD ? If we are talking moolar in this thread, important to get the fax.

Please DO keep this thread updated with your adventures, it makes such a refreshing change from the relative merits of Pirelli or Ditchfinder crossplys

Where to next ?