What about working to the end of the contract, having a one-week holiday over the border and then starting a new one?
Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sat 14 Apr 2012, 11:31,
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I don't think there's a time limit on italthough I'm going to ask whether this is possible. I wouldn't mind sitting out a week of the winter in southern Italy where at 10 degrees or so it'll feel like the middle of summer...
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boris the spider,
Sat 14 Apr 2012, 12:16,
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