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
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Bus - yes there is but it seems to take a couple of hours [plus changes] see http://www.sii.bz.it/ For train detail [pretty regular service from Verona] see http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en
I thought about leaving a car at the holiday house for general use.It would have been a UK car - from this and other forum responses, getting an Italian car would have been 'difficult'. [although I did consider getting an Italian to buy, tax and insure a car in Italy]I had considered insurance - I would have used Saga [or similar] for the annual 'use abroad' facilityI'd considered the MOT problem - the car would be new [or nearly new] so wouldn't need an MOT for 3 years, when it would be returned to the UK and replaced - it would be a small/cheap car to keep costs down - something like the Ford Ka that I bought brand new about 18 months ago for under £5kThe downfall of the proposal was what you did with the car when I wasn't there - if I left it at the airport, there were charges and security to consider. if I left it at the house, I had to pay for transport to and from the airport.All in all - the costs didn't stack up - so I hire
"Point well made I did mean FENCES!" . Being at a loose end, I Googled 'Fenching' - wish I hadn't................... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fenching
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-roast-quail-with-sauce
"but when it comes down to legal transactions such as buying houses and cars etc there should be a common understanding". Like common house buying rules in England and Scotland?
try a PM to Ronald or Valentina?
MBK - thanks for the warning - it at least made me aware there probably would be a problem. As i'd booked the overnight stop already - we still went ahead with the route anyway Both sides of the dual carriageway were 'singled' in places, with contraflow as well. It wasn't too much of a problem going from Dunkirk, as we were not having to get to a ferry by a set time, and a later arrival at the hotel didn't really matter [only in lost drinking time!]. But we didn't want to risk missing the ferry on the way back.
It literally sounds like two stones being knocked together, . Perhaps its just that - a local scaring the birds away as he goes out to work in the morning
http://www.alternative-dictionaries.net/dictionary/Italian/1.html
I'd avoid the property like the plague - tax dodge, plus charges against it etc etc - run like h*ell