Pieve di Monti di Villa



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Pieve di Monti di Villa
Bagni di Lucca and Ponte a Serraglio
The mountains
The region
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Getting there
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Washing Machine
  • Turn on
  • Select your setting
  • When it stops, you need to push off button and wait 2 minutes before you can open the door.




Electricity
  • You cannot run high voltage implements concurrently, for instance, if you ran  the electric oven together with the iron, the electricity would cut out.
  • If power cuts out, there is a power board located on the right of the main door (sometimes behind the painting).  Flick the main switch back on, UP.
  • Sometimes you will need to also go down into the laundry and turn the main switch on the powerboard there.
  • There are candles in the draw of the cupboard in the kitchen and a wind up tourch for emergency.






Rubbish
  • Ordinary rubbish in one bin, Re-cycle in another.
  • At the the top of the village in the car park on the road there are bins for rubbish, paper and card, glass and tins etc.




Gas
  • The kitchen stove is bottle gas. If it runs out there is another bottle in the cantina.The bottle to change is the bottle outside the cantina door. The shifter to change the nozzle is located in the cabinet draw in the kitchen


Fire Place
  • You are welcome to use the stove in the lounge room. Fire wood is in the cantina.  Please DO NOT leave the doors open when are out of the room. 


Food
  • Mice find their way into the house through open windows, even with the cats of the village, so for your own benefit, put food away and empty the food bin regularly.


Watering the plants
  • Would you mind watering the the pot plants, upstairs window, on the terrace and hydrangea at the cantina door, twice a week should be fine.


Change of sheets & bath towels
  • It's a self service house, so when you need a change of sheets or towels they are located in the  writing room in the tall cupboard. We hang the sheets on a wire outside the bathroom window. There is also a drying rack in the laundry.


Buses
  • There is a timetable in the kitchen cabinet draw.  Times may change without warning. In Italy, timetables are an indication!


Internet
  • Closest is at Jaqueline's in Ponte a Serraglio.


Bars & Restaurants
  • There is a bar in Pieve di Monti di Villa, well priced, run by lovely old people. There is a restaurant/bar in the next village down the hill at Graniola.


Information
  • For local information, including walks, trains, buses, good places to eat ask Jaqueline at Jaqueline's internet Point in Ponte a Serraglio