Hi all! Any idea the best way to go about selling a property in Italy (near Belmonte Castello in the mountains)? Any pitfalls, hurdles, crevasses? Aside from general Italian bureacracy!
My mother only has a Post Office account in Italy, and after a house sale, needs to transfer money to the UK. She (is over 70) and envisaging going on the plane with rather a lot of Euros, then paying exchange commission over here.
Nothing terribly dramatic! The broadband wifi posts are indeed outside mum's house, and are indeed being charged up through her electricity! She gets a signal in her house, but it is wep locked. I spoke to the sindaco, who said it's a trial and is currently only available to the post office, the commune and the chemist. However, we found open wifi in a couple of places (which are apparently public, so all's well in that respect): in Atina, near the square, and in Ponte Melfa (Atina Inferiore), in a bar opposite a phone shop. The chemist in Belmonte has told her to take the computer to him and he'll pop i the commun password, so all's more or less well. On the larger front - the provision for public Internet access in [southern] Italy is dire, and the government should be embarrassed. The few public spots I found are so weak as to be nigh on useless, and the genral attitude when you ask as to there being public wifi, is to be directed to a betting shop with wired Internet access on a pay per session basis. Poor show!
I just got off the phone to dear mama, and aside from complaining about electricity bills, she said the il sindaco told her it was an Internet post. So interesting.... I know there was a move to bring Internet connectivity to the rural South. She's about as rural as you get! Atina's a metropolis! More info on my return, but interesting nonetheless.
Hi all, Thanks for the replies. I'll have my iPhone with me, so I'll see whether or not she truly has an "Internet" post! Hopefully yes. I'll let you know the result when I'm back in July (or - if she has wifi, I'll do it while I'm there). d
If only I enjoyed being treated like scum. I have NEVER found Ryanair staff to be courteous, interested or anything other than disdainful. You get what you pay for is kind of on the right track: O'Leary seems to enjoy giving the attitude that "if you fly with us, you can't be worth my time" Every year I said I wouldn't do it again; every year I did. The final straw came when my mum came over on her own, and it was only when she chatted to another passenger while folk boarded, that she found out the plane was for Warsaw, not Prestwick! When she questioned the cabin crew, she was treated like she should have known. In her seventies, the experience is trying enough without getting treated like an idiot because their ground crew can't/don't read boarding cards. Enough - KLM or BA to Fiumicino. After taxes and baggage charges (and I'm excluding the 8Kg difference - add that on!) the difference is £33, which isn't bad, oh wait - £33 CHEAPER than Ryanair!
Gala, Thanks. Yes - I've been talking her out of the plane journey scenario, as it is too close to a St. Trinian's plot. I had thought the Post Office might, but my mum has lived in the sticks all her life and is convinced such things are not possible. Thanks again to all. I'll let you know the outcome! t
Hello and thanks to you both for the info. Gala, you mentioned "apart from the obvious risks" - I'm intrigued as to what they are. Please tell. An electronic transfer isn't subject to the same regulations - I am regularly paid in similar or larger amounts by EU clients, and it's a matter for HMRC over here, as it's bank to bank. The Italian restrictions (and you're right - they are there above €12,500) apply to carrying currency, not to transfers, which the banks declare as a matter of course. All that said - do you (does anyone) know if the Italian Post Office is capable of making an electronic transfer? Cheers,
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Nothing terribly dramatic! The broadband wifi posts are indeed outside mum's house, and are indeed being charged up through her electricity! She gets a signal in her house, but it is wep locked. I spoke to the sindaco, who said it's a trial and is currently only available to the post office, the commune and the chemist. However, we found open wifi in a couple of places (which are apparently public, so all's well in that respect): in Atina, near the square, and in Ponte Melfa (Atina Inferiore), in a bar opposite a phone shop. The chemist in Belmonte has told her to take the computer to him and he'll pop i the commun password, so all's more or less well. On the larger front - the provision for public Internet access in [southern] Italy is dire, and the government should be embarrassed. The few public spots I found are so weak as to be nigh on useless, and the genral attitude when you ask as to there being public wifi, is to be directed to a betting shop with wired Internet access on a pay per session basis. Poor show!
I just got off the phone to dear mama, and aside from complaining about electricity bills, she said the il sindaco told her it was an Internet post. So interesting.... I know there was a move to bring Internet connectivity to the rural South. She's about as rural as you get! Atina's a metropolis! More info on my return, but interesting nonetheless.
Hi all, Thanks for the replies. I'll have my iPhone with me, so I'll see whether or not she truly has an "Internet" post! Hopefully yes. I'll let you know the result when I'm back in July (or - if she has wifi, I'll do it while I'm there). d
Anyone, anyone? Bueller?
If only I enjoyed being treated like scum. I have NEVER found Ryanair staff to be courteous, interested or anything other than disdainful. You get what you pay for is kind of on the right track: O'Leary seems to enjoy giving the attitude that "if you fly with us, you can't be worth my time" Every year I said I wouldn't do it again; every year I did. The final straw came when my mum came over on her own, and it was only when she chatted to another passenger while folk boarded, that she found out the plane was for Warsaw, not Prestwick! When she questioned the cabin crew, she was treated like she should have known. In her seventies, the experience is trying enough without getting treated like an idiot because their ground crew can't/don't read boarding cards. Enough - KLM or BA to Fiumicino. After taxes and baggage charges (and I'm excluding the 8Kg difference - add that on!) the difference is £33, which isn't bad, oh wait - £33 CHEAPER than Ryanair!
Gala, Thanks. Yes - I've been talking her out of the plane journey scenario, as it is too close to a St. Trinian's plot. I had thought the Post Office might, but my mum has lived in the sticks all her life and is convinced such things are not possible. Thanks again to all. I'll let you know the outcome! t
Hello and thanks to you both for the info. Gala, you mentioned "apart from the obvious risks" - I'm intrigued as to what they are. Please tell. An electronic transfer isn't subject to the same regulations - I am regularly paid in similar or larger amounts by EU clients, and it's a matter for HMRC over here, as it's bank to bank. The Italian restrictions (and you're right - they are there above €12,500) apply to carrying currency, not to transfers, which the banks declare as a matter of course. All that said - do you (does anyone) know if the Italian Post Office is capable of making an electronic transfer? Cheers,