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TARI Tax 2024

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

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 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

Thu, 05/16/2024 - 06:18

Swiss Motorway Vignette - Online E-Purchase.

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

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Mon, 12/18/2023 - 04:17

We used to use Book Depository to get books for our ½ûÂþÌìÌà friends at Christmas.

Book Depository now closed.Ìý Does anyone know of an ½ûÂþÌìÌà (or EU) bookshop that will accept orders from the UK and deliver to an ½ûÂþÌìÌà address?

Sat, 12/02/2023 - 07:37

Train travel from UK to ItalyÌý

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Wed, 11/22/2023 - 13:42

Open Log Fires in Piemonte [and other areas]

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Tue, 09/19/2023 - 05:36

DRIVING THROUGH FRANCEÌý -Ìý LOW EMISSION ZONES.

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

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Wed, 08/09/2023 - 09:25

EU Entry Permit Required From 2024

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Mon, 06/26/2023 - 04:08

IMU DISCOUNT FOR UK PENSIONERS

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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

Wed, 12/15/2010 - 11:16

Can he keep on surviving on less than a handful of votes?ÌýÌý YES Ìý Will the opposition manage to unite?Ìý NO Ìý What is clear is that Italy does not need a political crisis right now. What do you think?Ìý An ElectorateÌýgets the politicians it deserves

Tue, 12/14/2010 - 17:15

"Just a few minutes twice a day, morning and evening should be enough. Switch off the heating while you ventilate." This won't work when the air in the house is damp from renovations etc. The best bet is get the house nice and warm and keep it so, and dehumidify for a long time Opening the windows and turning the heat off won't help at all Ìý In the longer term, when the house has dried out properly, small solar powered ventilators [from boat builders] may helpÌý Ìý[]

Mon, 12/13/2010 - 10:24

If the damp trouble occurs when you heat up the room - it sounds like warm moist air hitting a cold surface [the wall] and condensing on it To stop this happening you need to dry the air out - its probably a bit damp in the air from all the renovation works [cement and plaster drying out etc] and is apparent in the room as the wall lacks any plaster or render insulation - making it probably the coldest wall in the house. You could plaster it internally and/or render it externally. or you can open the windows as much as possible [great in winter!] to dry the whole house out [not just the problem room] Whatever you do, the problem should decrease as the house drys out - so you could just try living with it until the next summer when hopefully it will eventually dry out naturally De-humidifiers could help speed up the process, but whatever you do - get plenty of air circulating. Ìý Good Luck.

Sun, 12/12/2010 - 07:22

Shortest from your place to Amsterdam - 1400km - approx 13 hrs Via the coast road [Nice etc] - 1770km - approx 16.5 hrsÌý [nearly all motorway - all except 22km and no Alps] I think [if you're worried about the snow and the mountains] that I'd do the coastal route to France, but then doÌýCalais - Dover,Ìý[or Dunkirk - Dover], as it will be a cheaper option than Amsterdam to Newcastle

Sat, 12/11/2010 - 10:46

"I keep on imagining us all freezing to death crossing the alps and getting stuck in the snow!!!Ìý" From where you are, you could take the coastal route into France and then up the centre of France - you'd miss the Alps that way.Ìý Longer, but flatter

Sat, 12/11/2010 - 10:41

"Norfolk Line have a Zeebrugge to Rosyth crossing". I think that finishes running on 15th December

Wed, 12/08/2010 - 04:39

"I'm still findining it difficult to get decent quality insulated plaster board in Italy, I want to use 92mm thick Kingspan K17 but the Gespol similar ( ½ûÂþÌìÌà ) product is 50% less thermally efficient anybody got a suggestion?" Have you considered buying the board in the Uk and shipping it down to Italy Ìý If it stacks up financially, you couldÌýPM Ìý'coperlacasa'Ìý- he does regular runs with a van to/from the UK

Tue, 12/07/2010 - 12:57

Sat, 12/04/2010 - 06:08

"in the greater scheme of property frauds to which a foreign buyer might fall prey, this is peanuts."

Not if it had happened to you

Hopefully the prison sentence will deter others agentsÌýfrom doing such a 'peanuts' fraud

Thu, 12/02/2010 - 04:28

You could always post something on the thread to bring it back to the top - if you think it is important