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Jörgen Andersson17-Jun-15 4:50

17-Jun-15 4:50

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

908236517-Jun-15 5:00

9082365

17-Jun-15 5:00

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we're three families of four nationalities

12 people and 12 nationalities? What a very interesting private life you must have. WTF | :WTF:

5imone17-Jun-15 5:02

5imone

17-Jun-15 5:02

What you're describing seems wonderful ....
may be you could need an additional guest Big Grin | :-D

Unfortunately I cannot suggest too many things outside the standard touristic tours but depending on how many Km you want to drive and on what you are interested in:
Siena
Rosignano Solvay beach, but only have a look
Giglio Island
San Gimignano
Arezzo
Volterra
For the small ones, starting from Cecina going south it is plenty of sandy beaches
Last but not least wineries Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

I forgot to mention the fact that all of these info will cost you a big piece of rot varm lax (pardon me for the missing Swedish chars and of course wrong typing) Smile | :)

modified 17-Jun-15 11:26am.

Jörgen Andersson17-Jun-15 5:12

17-Jun-15 5:12

Looks like our current list

5imone wrote:
Rosignano Solvay beach, but only have a look

Why only look?

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

OriginalGriff17-Jun-15 5:15

OriginalGriff

17-Jun-15 5:15

Google[^] to the rescue! Laugh | :laugh:

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5imone17-Jun-15 5:17

5imone

17-Jun-15 5:17

From Italian wikipedia ...

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The white beaches are a stretch of about four kilometers of sandy coastline of the town of Rosignano Marittimo in Tuscany between the villages of Solvay and the center of the hamlet of Vada. [1] Wet from the Ligurian Sea, [2] are all ' extreme northern edge of the Maremma coast.

The unusual color of the sand, which is why the beach is compared to the tropical coasts, is a result of years of work and the discharge of calcium carbonate from a plant of the Solvay Group, located in Solvay, about a kilometer from coast. [3] The sodiera, which happens to be the largest in Europe, [4] was built in 1912 near the beach, starting its activity in 1914, producing, as well as sodium carbonate, hydrogen peroxide, polyethylene, calcium chloride, sodium bicarbonate and hydrogen chloride. [4] Access to the beach is given by a small hill, which until 1983 (but kept open until 1986) was used as a landfill production waste and domestic waste. [5]

Because of the discharge of Solvay, including therefore the mercury, which is released in the works through electrolysis, and other pollutants, [6] the White Beaches are among the most polluted cities in Italy and fishing adjacent waters is extremely small. [7] [4] In addition, this part of the coast is among the 15 most polluted coastal sites of the Mediterranean Sea, according to the United Nations Environment Programme, the United Nations program for the environment. [8]

Jörgen Andersson17-Jun-15 10:40

17-Jun-15 10:40

Ah.

Oh well, there are more beaches, and the house comes with a pool, so it's not to bad.

We even have an extra unused room in the house. Wink | ;)

And we're taking turns cooking, so smoked salmon is bound to happen, with pasta, pesto and pine nuts.

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

Maximilien17-Jun-15 5:25

Maximilien

17-Jun-15 5:25

How long will you be there?

You seem to be in the middle distance between Florence and Rome (both will take 2h+ to get there), so if planning day trips it might be too far.

With kids that young, your options for things to do will be limited.

If adults can share babysitting time, then the adults not on duty can probably go visit wineries and olive oil and other product producers.

You can also go to the beaches.

I'd rather be phishing!

Jörgen Andersson17-Jun-15 10:32

17-Jun-15 10:32

We'll be there for two weeks.
And the house comes with a pool.
In all honesty, we're really looking to relax most of the time, but all of those things you've mentioned is on our list to do.
Rome we intend to do without the kids though. Blush | :O

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

Abhinav S17-Jun-15 7:07

Abhinav S

17-Jun-15 7:07

Jörgen Andersson wrote:
We're bringing children with us aged 2,3,4,5

And you call this a vacation?!?

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Jörgen Andersson17-Jun-15 10:27

17-Jun-15 10:27

It is for the kids.

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

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Ron Anders17-Jun-15 3:45

Ron Anders

17-Jun-15 3:45

Hi,

I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny for as long as it's been in print. Same now if not worse with Commit Strip.

I just come away with meh.

I think our industry is either YAY it's working or Damn it's still not. Either the people around us or the projects we are on. Neither of which are particularly humorous unless you are such a noob humanoid that breaking down others is funny.

Am I alone in this?

:Ron

Roger Wright17-Jun-15 3:49

Roger Wright

17-Jun-15 3:49

Yup.

Will Rogers never met me.

devenv.exe17-Jun-15 3:50

devenv.exe

17-Jun-15 3:50

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Nagy Vilmos

17-Jun-15 4:09

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F-ES Sitecore17-Jun-15 4:34

F-ES Sitecore

17-Jun-15 4:34

This one[^] should be in the FAQs for the QA section.

GStrad17-Jun-15 23:51

GStrad

17-Jun-15 23:51

I use that Bobby Tables reference a lot with teams when talking about defensive programming ideas. I find myself surprised how few people have come across it.

ZurdoDev17-Jun-15 4:25

ZurdoDev

17-Jun-15 4:25

Ron Anders wrote:
I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny

You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert. $Shucks | :-\$

He cracks me up. It's so real to life. He has dry humor, I like it.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Kirk 1038982118-Jun-15 4:56

Kirk 10389821

18-Jun-15 4:56

RyanDev wrote:
You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert. $Shucks | :-\$

Here Here.

I worked in an office with a Pointy Haired Like manager,
and a guy who WAS TOTALLY WALLY. While some of the humor is a
little bizzare, I find I totally relate to it. My daughter is Alice.
So much so, that this Halloween, we are doing it Dilbert Themed.

I also think it is "irony" based humor. Just look at the "Watch that predicts when
people will die in a few minutes", and the companies decision to use Scare Tactic ads
(that confuse the users into thinking they may die). Ironic. Almost Realistically sad.

And funny because you know the watch will fail because the business can't figure out how
to get the ads to make revenue. (Truth portion was that good engineering can be undermined
by bad companies. Xerox and the Mouse, GUI, etc.)

Chuck O'Halloran18-Jun-15 8:05

Chuck O'Halloran

18-Jun-15 8:05

RyanDev wrote:
Ron Anders wrote:
I have been waiting for Dilbert to be funny
You have to have a sense of humor to understand Dilbert. $Shucks | :-\$

A sense of humor and a job. In my 20s, my friends would look through my Dilbert and complain that they just weren't funny. Then one of them got a real job (ie, not cleaning pools or making pizzas) and suddenly they started to understand Dilbert and why it's funny.

Maximilien17-Jun-15 4:26

Maximilien

17-Jun-15 4:26

I don't think they are meant to be always "hahahaha" funny

Sometimes you simply smile, or nod, or weep, or say, "yeah, that's life" ...

I'd rather be phishing!

kmoorevs17-Jun-15 4:28

kmoorevs

17-Jun-15 4:28

Are there any comic strips that are funny anymore? Either my sense of humor has been dulled by the years or the comic strips used to actually contain comedy which they don't anymore. I remember as a kid, enjoying all of the Sunday paper comic strips...except for Doonsbury, which I never understood. Confused | :confused:

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

Richard Deeming17-Jun-15 5:00

Richard Deeming

17-Jun-15 5:00

Have you seen: http://smbc-comics.com/[^]

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- Homer

908236517-Jun-15 5:18

9082365

17-Jun-15 5:18

kmoorevs wrote:
Are there any comic strips that are funny anymore?

Define the parameters of 'funny'!

In general I think comic strips have always been intended to be 'wry' rather than laugh-out-loud funny. If you did indeed find them 'funny' in the past (and one must always beware of golden age memory syndrome) it may say more about the immaturity of your sense of humour then than the dullness of it now.