Translators' gaffes No. 1: Come to Cannobio - where the wildlife is

Sixteen degrees at 8am. They tell me these beautiful, sunny, dry Indian summer days are just about over, and autumn is waiting at the turn of the week. 

I idly picked up a Cannobio accommodation brochure the other day, and my editor's eyes alighted on this particular description: 

“...The flats are all endowed with equipped kitchen, autonomous heating, ample private balcony or terrace, sat-TV, parking, pier and boas...”

Perhaps visitors might be more than a little wary of this residenza, what with the heating with a mind of its own and something squirmy waiting at the pier...