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TARI Tax 2024Just had my TARI bill for 2024. I used

TARI Tax 2024

Just had my TARI bill for 2024. I used the PagoPA website to pay it online

I had major problems with it not accepting my payment - it seemed to freeze after the card details were entered.

Sat, 09/07/2024 - 05:58

Travelling back from Lake Orta area in N Italy, we

Travelling back from Lake Orta area in N Italy, we travelled to the Simplon Pass to reach our first overnight stop in Sion.

Imagine our delight to find that a landslide has closed the pass "for the foreseeable future"

Tue, 07/02/2024 - 02:07

Don't forget - IMU 1st payment due 16th June

Don't forget - IMU 1st payment due 16th June

Thu, 05/16/2024 - 06:18

Swiss Motorway Vignette - Online E-Purchase.You can now buy

Swiss Motorway Vignette - Online E-Purchase.

You can now buy a e-vignette online. All electronic, so no sticker issued. It work by using your car number plate.

Mon, 12/18/2023 - 04:17

We used to use Book Depository to get books for

We used to use Book Depository to get books for our Italian friends at Christmas.

Book Depository now closed. Does anyone know of an Italian (or EU) bookshop that will accept orders from the UK and deliver to an Italian address?

Sat, 12/02/2023 - 07:37

Train travel from UK to ItalyJust got back from a

Train travel from UK to Italy

Wed, 11/22/2023 - 13:42

Open Log Fires in Piemonte [and other areas]Just had

Open Log Fires in Piemonte [and other areas]

Tue, 09/19/2023 - 05:36

DRIVING THROUGH FRANCE - LOW EMISSION ZONES.https://www.bbc.

DRIVING THROUGH FRANCE - LOW EMISSION ZONES.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66449514

Bought mine - less than £5 all in. Took about a week to arrive.

Wed, 08/09/2023 - 09:25

EU Entry Permit Required From 2024https://www.google.co.uk/

EU Entry Permit Required From 2024

Mon, 06/26/2023 - 04:08

IMU DISCOUNT FOR UK PENSIONERSI am aware that some posters

IMU DISCOUNT FOR UK PENSIONERS

I am aware that some posters on this site have got the IMU discount for UK Pensioners with a holiday home in Italy, that is not rented out at all.

Mon, 06/19/2023 - 10:17

Comments posted

Answer to: Ciao!i’m new here as we are about

Sun, 11/24/2019 - 06:42

What we did when we bought our holiday home in Italy was:-
1. Decide on area - we did this visiting places we thought would do, with Italian friends, who gave us a overview of the area
2. Using Italian Yellow Pages (Pagine Gialle?) We got names of estate agents in the area, and by googling them got their website and email details.
3. Booked a weeks holiday in the area and arranged, by email (in Italian- Google translate if all else fails) meetings with half a dozen agents - max 2 a day. They were all given via email our requirements - location, no of bedrooms, land etc etc, and price - so in theory they would take us to appropriate places. (Worked pretty well).
4. Found the one we liked and offered 40% below asking price . Was accepted and we've enjoyed the ace for over 15 years.

Good luck

Answer to: Earthquake insuranceWe own a house near

Thu, 11/21/2019 - 15:29

If you copy the web address in stevemonkseatons post and put it into 'Google Translate " you might get a fair(ish) English version of the page.

Answer to: Speeding FinesOn the journey from Lucca

Wed, 11/20/2019 - 11:18

These sites may help [I don't know how accurate they are]http://english.controleradar.org/ https://radars.securite-routiere.gouv.fr/#/https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/french-super-speed-camera/ Good luck

Answer to: Earthquake insuranceWe own a house near

Sat, 11/09/2019 - 05:07

GeoffAnnn,I'm sure youve already tried this, but I Googled "Italy earthquake insurance" and it threw out some possible insurers, who say they do it. [but caveat "ubject to the area that the property is in"]

Answer to: We have a second home in Lucca and plan

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 10:07

Try Googling something like "Lucca expats forum" - should throw something up

Answer to: Hi, i like to go to i*Ireland the next

Fri, 08/09/2019 - 11:30

If you want 'cheap' hotel - don't stay in Venice.
We stayed in Padova and went into Venice on the train. Saved a fortune.

Answer to: Hello all. We are planning on driving

Tue, 07/16/2019 - 07:03

Toll free route through France [motorwys passing by the following];-

Calais - Dunkirk - Lille - Mons - Luxembourg [Fill up with fuel at motorway services just before leaving Luxembourg - cheapest petrol on route] - Metz - Nancy. All motorway with no tolls
Nancy - Mulhouse [or Nancy - Colmar - Mulhouse] much dual carriage way, except when going over the 'hills'.
Mulhouse into Germany and down autobahn towards Basel [not Mulhouse - Basel direct]
Turn off onto autobahn to Lorrach and Rheinfelden and into Switzerland ...............Note - pick up Swiss Motorway Vignette at Bad Bellingham services on first Autiobahn
On to Lucerne and Gotthard Tunnel. [Thus avoiding risk of traffic/customs problems in Basle]
on to Italy, paying as necessary on Italian Autostradas.

Journey time from Calais to Pisa - approx 16 hoursStops to suit what time you started from UK -mprobably after 3 hrs on day 1, 8 hrs on day 2 and leavibng approx 5 hrs into PisaSuggest the Eurotunnel rather than the Ferries - will save about 2 hrs [minimum] on journey time [unless you need a decent break and a meal -motherwise the Tunnel is so much simpler] Good luck

Answer to: IMU Tax - hi, after some advice on IMU

Thu, 07/04/2019 - 07:45

My comune did 'revalue' my property, causing the IMU paymrnt to increase. But if they did that to you they should have told you, or your accountant.

Answer to: My house has a semi-underground store

Thu, 07/04/2019 - 07:43

Thanks - that's what I thought was the case, but its good to get feedback from you

Answer to: Is anyone conversant with domestic

Wed, 05/22/2019 - 15:26

Don't know the legal rquirements, but whenever I've seen bombola used, they have always been placed outside the building [on balcony or ground level]. Having them inside the building is a recipe for disasterTalk to a Geometra, he/she would know the legalities.