When searching for the perfect house you tend to have a long list of things you desire, ranging from tons of space to having a garden and swimming pool. This list I bring along during every visit and tick the box for the Erwin Requirements. But having extended my search to Italy I found myself facing a dilemma of adding more to that list. The need of a good pizza or espresso are not one of them but one you would hardly think of but when you visited 3 houses, you certainly will.
This added criteria is ...CATS!
Having walked to beautifully preserved villages I encountered what I can only describe as an army of cats that manage the streets like a the mafia runs italie...
They have become the kings of Italy, being fed by grandmums, having small houses to live in and doing there thing New Dehli style. When I asked the real estate agent about it he smiled, mama mia, pets are outnumbering the habitants.
But things got even worse. When I entered the house, pushing cats away, I found myself in a beautiful house which had many orginal features. But than the agent opened all the windows, aahhhhhh two cats where looking at me from the roof top, one on the balcony, one hiding just behind another window and one in the gutter. This was Fellini doing a Hitchcock but replacing the Birds with Cats! Damn scary stuff.
I quickly added the Anti Cat Clause to my list and on the way back started to think what I could do with them... Cat stew, cat ravioli, cat soda flavored drink, cat cappucino, cat pizza, cat carpaccio. All of a sudden, it seemed that I found a whole in the market... The law of supply and demand are really in my favour !
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