Hi. We are driving from the U.K. to Fogliarido in the Trentino Alto Adige region arriving Saturday 2nd March.
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We have recently installed CCTV on our property in Italy.is anyone able to advise on the regulations? Is it enough to display a simple sign notifying that CCTV is in operation? Thanks
Thu, 06/22/2023 - 01:32
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We have residency in Italy and are thinking of renting out our property in Emilia-Romagna through Airbnb and have a few questions which we hope someone may be able to help us with:-
Fri, 05/13/2022 - 02:51
Change to transit restrictions through France.
Thu, 12/30/2021 - 07:51
The Covid vaccine certificates showing on the NHS App are now recognised by the Italian Green Pass scanning system. But make sure you show your second vaccine bar code as the first one creates a fail.
Sun, 08/15/2021 - 11:18
Hi. I’m visiting Siena for a couple of days this week Does any one know if the Wednesday market is happening at the moment? Also, any tips on where to eat? Many thanks.
Mon, 06/07/2021 - 02:09
I will be in Verona on Saturday and am looking for a sports bar which might be showing the Rugby World Cup final which starts at 10am local time. Does anyone know of such a place? Thanks
Mon, 10/28/2019 - 10:13
It is our first summer in our house nears Ferrara. Our property is adjacent to a canal so we have a lot of mosquitoes in the evening. Is anyone aware of an effective repellant that does not contain a signify amount of deet?
Sat, 06/29/2019 - 23:46
We are planning on driving from the UK to Italy via Switzerland. In the car we will have flat pack kitchen units and an electric hob.
Fri, 03/08/2019 - 11:18
Hi. We are building a kitchen in an annexe of our house in Italy. We need a plumber to connect the sink to the drainage system and sign the documents for the Commune. Unfortrunately all of the plumbers we have contacted are unwilling to sign.
Fri, 02/22/2019 - 17:05
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We also sent off to the NHS for a paper copy and requested a copy of the accompanying explanation in Italian. Not used it yet but might be handy.
Yes- 5 days quarantine. Next review 31st August. Although our daughter has just finished her 5 days and nobody contacted her to check. They had their day 6 test st a local pharmacy but weren’t sure why they bothered as no one had asked them about it. We are on Day 3 of isolation but quite happy as the sun is shining!
We found the bar codes on our NHS App.
under Get Your NHS Covid Pass- Travel- Covid Records Found- Details (use the second bar code).
I was amazed it worked although we e not been asked to show it in italy yet - just in France on the way down.
We have printed copies but not tried to use them yet
Thank you for all this information- it’s good to hear as we are heading back next week. Which testing centre did you use- we too live in Guildford?
Thank you for all this information- it’s good to hear as we are heading back next week. Which testing centre did you use- we too live in Guildford?
Re entering Switzerland, I just read that Switzerland is only accepting Astro Zeneca vaccinations from within EU.
When we drove to/from Italy last month we didn’t have a trailer but the car was packed to the gunnels and no one was interested in what we were carrying.
Bologna airport has testing facilities but the website states that it is only for those who are flying. As we drive I checked out the free Red Cross testing at Bologna train station (also at many other major stations). It seems that the antigen test they offer meets U.K. entry requirements with results in half an hour and in English. For us, this seems to be the best option.
We asked about getting the tampone per viaggio at a large city centre pharmacy today. They said they can’t do it and referred us to a private clinic. The cost would be €110. This contradicts your experience Castelforte.
We asked about getting the tampone per viaggio at a large city centre pharmacy today. They said they can’t do it and referred us to a private clinic. The cost would be €110. This contradicts your experience Castelforte.
Hi. I said I’d let you know how we got on last week when driving from the U.K. to Emilia Romagna.
The journey itself was very straightforward although we had to avoid the French 9 pm curfew and we found out the night before we departed that we wouldn't be allowed to transit through Switzerland (went via the Mt Blanc tunnel which was particularly gruelling as we’d bought our vignettes in advance).
At Eurotunnel we were asked if we’d had a negative PCR tests but didn’t have to show the results. At no point on the journey did we need to produce the wealth of paperwork we’d had to complete and the France/Italy border was unmanned.
The only other potential problem was that the PCR test to enter italy which should be taken within 48 hours of arrival in italy. As most tests take 24 hours to get the results (which are also required to enter France) it was impossible for us to meet this timing. So we had our test at 3pm on Tuesday and entered italy around 7pm on Thursday. As I said, no one checked.
Restrictions have now changed for entering France from the U.K. and I haven’t been able to find out for sure whether transit to italy is permitted. Going back we’ll be fine as we’ll be entering France from an EU but thereafter we may need to resort to flying out.
I found this website very useful in checking what documents were required for each country. https://apply.joinsherpa.com/travel-restrictions
Btw as regards Brexit, we had a car full of ‘stuff’, old and new, as well as food and encountered no problems.