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    Quote Originally Posted by Goldcoastgolfer View Post
    Okay - I have to put my hand up and admit to thinking you were female as well.... So I guess it's your girlfriend in your avatar In my defence though, one of my staff is a woman who's name is Nicola

    Great to learn more about you. Some of your photos are quite simply magnificent and I'm a big fan of your work. Incidentally, I can completely understand your dislike of electronic engineering - the stream of engineering I hated the most when I was doing aeronautical engineering.
    Hi Mal,
    yes in the avatar is me and my girlfriend drinking (several) glass of "vin-brulè" (red wine hot and mixed with many kind of aromatic herbs... but don't fall in mistake: legal ones!!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by kezmal View Post
    Great to read all about you Nicola - yes my first question out loud to my husband 'Mal' aka Goldcoastgolfer was Nicola is a man!!! LOL.... although here in Australia my name spelt Kerry with a 'Y' is the male version!!
    I think in this globalized world we need a world standard for names much more than for physic units!

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    Great read. Thanks for sharing Nicola.

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    Aah that explains it; all that exercise. I took pure maths at university and glad I did, until I got out and found the jobs on offer were accountancy, teaching yuk, or research which only paid £7000pa and I think probably still does.

    I used to know an Italian girl who phoned me every week to practice english, I thought she was a bloke but hey; she got a Ferrari and house with glass doors and a swimming pool.

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    Thank you for sharing, Nicola. Your name and avatar image certainly confused me as to which of the two you were! It is funny that when I think someone is a particular gender that my interpretation of their postings on CiC is slightly different and I believe it colors the words I use in composing a reply to their images as well. I love your work and look forward to seeing much more. Perhaps you can convince your girlfriend to let you post her portrait?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nicola View Post
    this is very important here in italy, actually fuel (gasoline) costs about 1,9 eur/liter = 5,5 USD/gallon...!

    Hi Nicola,

    I happen to know that Nicola is a guy's name, because I had a friend with that name in Ricioni, who had a hotel at the Adriatic coast. I spent 11 years for 5 weeks vacationing and staying in his hotel. He was a lot older than me, but we both love car racing. In his private home he had a hugh hobby room with 5 vintage cars, ferrari, maserati, Alfa Romeo and so on. My wife was miss Rimini in 1967. Good memories.
    If your gasoline cost is 1.90 euro per liter, I think the price in dollars per gallon is about $9.38.
    1 euro = $1.30 and 1 gallon is 3.8 liter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by arith View Post
    Aah that explains it; all that exercise. I took pure maths at university and glad I did, until I got out and found the jobs on offer were accountancy, teaching yuk, or research which only paid £7000pa and I think probably still does.

    I used to know an Italian girl who phoned me every week to practice english, I thought she was a bloke but hey; she got a Ferrari and house with glass doors and a swimming pool.

    Steve, I will call you every week to practice english... if it can help me to get a Ferrari!

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    Quote Originally Posted by FrankMi View Post
    I love your work and look forward to seeing much more.
    thank you Frank, it is a very big encouragement for me!

    Quote Originally Posted by FrankMi View Post
    Perhaps you can convince your girlfriend to let you post her portrait?
    I'm trying... but you know how the woman are...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ronny View Post
    Hi Nicola,

    I happen to know that Nicola is a guy's name, because I had a friend with that name in Ricioni, who had a hotel at the Adriatic coast. I spent 11 years for 5 weeks vacationing and staying in his hotel. He was a lot older than me, but we both love car racing. In his private home he had a hugh hobby room with 5 vintage cars, ferrari, maserati, Alfa Romeo and so on. My wife was miss Rimini in 1967. Good memories.
    If your gasoline cost is 1.90 euro per liter, I think the price in dollars per gallon is about $9.38.
    1 euro = $1.30 and 1 gallon is 3.8 liter.
    Hi Ronny
    you are absolutely right! there is for sure some kind of typing error in my calculation, probably I typed 1,90 / 1,3 x 3,8 instead of 1,9 x 1,3 x 3,8
    I'm quite surprised by how many here on CiC have a "link" to Italy..!

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