Driving to Italy
Just driven down. No longer cheap petrol in Switzerland - fill up in France.
Even Italian petrol is appreciably cheaper than Switzerland
(There was no petrol available in Mulhouse for some reason)
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IMU Tax
Don't forget the first payment is due by 16th June
Sat, 05/14/2022 - 06:35
DRIVING TO ITALY FOR CHRISTMAS
You've got until Saturday to enter France, before the entry ban for UK citizens comes into place.
Thu, 12/16/2021 - 04:33
European PET Passport.
Anyone had experience of getting a European Pet Passport for a dog in Italy (or possibly France, when we drive down)
Thu, 08/26/2021 - 05:40
As a Brit with a holiday home in Northern Italy, its been over a year since I have been able to visit it. Last time was in February 2020, when the highlight was a meal out with Italian friends in a crowded restaurant in Bergamo! Luckily, no ill
Thu, 05/06/2021 - 04:55
IMU etc Due Soon
just a quick reminder to those not living in Italy, that the IMU etc on your Italian property requires paying this month.
Tue, 12/01/2020 - 14:48
Travelling through France - UK Quarantine
Looks like people travelling through France to the UK could well be soon required to quarantine themselves for 2 weeks on their entry into the UK.
Fri, 08/07/2020 - 03:27
Are there companies in Italy that just change kitchen units doors and worksurfaces, rather than a complete replacement of the units?
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 17:37
My house has a semi-underground store room that was nice and cool during the recent very hot weather - the dog and I spent a lot of time in it - me reading and him asleep on the floor.Floor is just old concrete slab - lots of dust, and the walls a
Wed, 07/03/2019 - 10:50
Car Driving to [and in] Italy on a UK Licence- post Brexit IF No Deal reached. I am driving down in March, and have had to plan for a 'No Deal' Brexit, just in case.If No Deal - all UK Driving Licence holders
Tue, 02/26/2019 - 10:34
Comments posted
You can get 'travel adaptors' in plenty of shops in the UK, including at airports and ferry ports. However, they are only rated at about 3.5 to 7 amps [depending on type] so you can't use them for stuff like kettles and some high tech UK hair dryers. The plugs also can warm up quite a lot when in useI keep a couple of adaptors for travelling to/from my holiday place in italy - but as a permanent solution I have a couple of UK '4-way' extension leads at the house, that I have cut the UK plug off of, and fitted an Italian one instead.
This site has photos of many european snakes http://www.herp.it/go to the "Index (Common)" page and look in the index for 'Snakes' - where the many European ones are listed. If you click on the name, the pictures pop up, and underneath the last picture it gives the snake's distribution
what did the skin look like? Any picture?
http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_w38/waste-borders-ships.html#hdng1
For me - the 'New Activity' button does not pick up all new and amended posts - but the 'mark all as read' button does 'knock them all out' - including those not recognised by the New Activity button posts So I have to check carefully to see what I would be missing by hitting the 'Mark all ...' button
If you log on to the Accor website - http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/home/index.shtml You get a great range of hotels, from below Formula 1 up to higher than Mercure, and a pretty good interactive map to sort out your options
The second link in my original posting - the link that referred to an overnight stop in Belguim should have been http://www.castellessorbiers.be/UK/default.asp, [which refers to Castel les Sorbieres, not a repeat of the Nancy hotel - http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-0407-novotel-nancy-ouest/index.shtml]l As to cost - the benefit of the Formula 1 chain is cheap and cheerful - however, as I like to make the journey a part of the holiday, [and not a mad dash to/from the channel], I prefer to pay the extra and get a good hotel with good food [both the stops I quote above easily do that]
"As Adriatica says, pop it in the freezer (it won't freeze) " Careful - if its a commercial limoncello, the alcoholic content probably won't be high enough to prevent freezing
"....but where do you get the litre of 90 percent proof alcohol? I don't see it on the shelves of the local shops" Try the larger supermarkets - thats where we got ours
"Can someone tell me that once opened, how long will it keep in the fridge?" As long as it takes you to drink it. ...................................... [It won't go 'off']