Driving to ItalyÌý
Just driven down.Ìý No longer cheap petrol in SwitzerlandÌý - fill up in France.Ìý
Even ½ûÂþÌìÌà petrol is appreciably cheaper than SwitzerlandÌý
(There was no petrol available in Mulhouse for some reason)
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IMU Tax
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Don't forget the first payment is due by 16th June
Sat, 05/14/2022 - 06:35
DRIVING TO ITALY FOR CHRISTMAS
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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.
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Anyone had experience of getting a European Pet Passport for a dog in Italy (or possibly France, whenÌýwe 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.Ìý Last time was in February 2020, when the highlight was a meal out with ½ûÂþÌìÌà friends in a crowded restaurant in Bergamo!Ìý Luckily, no ill
Thu, 05/06/2021 - 04:55
IMU etc Due Soon
just a quick reminder to those not living in Italy,Ìý that the IMU etc on your ½ûÂþÌìÌà property requires payingÌýthis month.
Tue, 12/01/2020 - 14:48
Travelling through France - UK QuarantineÌý
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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 BrexitÌý IF No Deal reached.ÌýI 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
"suggestion to bypass Basel sounds like a great idea. We too have queued for hours to get into Switzerland. I know it sounds a silly question, but has anyone got the signs that we would need to follow to go the other way, i.e. out of Switzerland?"ÌýÌýComing up from Lucerne on the motorway on the A2 - E35, a few miles before Basel,m Ìýyou reach a junction where you either go to left [A2] to Basel or right [A3 E60] to Zurich.Ìý Take the Zurich turn and stay in the inside lane for the turn to Germany [signed 'Rheinfelden'], and you are at the border.Ìý [I did it on Sunday - went through without stopping - quickest ever border crossing!]ÌýÌýThis link should show the map - [I hope]Ìý [just reduce the magnification to get a decent view of the map]
deleted - failed to cut & past properly - oh well, off to italy tomorrow!
Don't know if this will help - but you can see real time traffic flows on this siteÌý
Try GooglingÌýÌý "lamezia B&B" - it throws up some cheap accommodation possibilitiesÌýor if you like - there are some late night [slow] trains - but they involve longish station stops at the interchanges.After the 20.25 train, that arrives at BM at 22.09 [1 change] , there is the 00.22 that arrives at 05.50 [with a 3hr wait at Sapri] or the 01.17 train - that takes forever with 2 longish waits when changing trains [arrives about 08.22]
MBK - is it only down to 1 lane from Lille towards Dunkirk, or is it in both directions?
in my posting above i say that Castel Les Sorbieres is by the Moselle - its not, its beside the MeuseÌý[don't seem to be able to edit anything other than the initial post in the thread]
Calais - then passing close to [on motorway] Dunkirk, Lille, Charleroi, Luxembourg, Metz, Nancy, Epinal - then over the Vosges [only bit of non-dual carriageway] to Mulhouse, then into Germany and avoid Basel by taking the last turning off the autobahn to Lorrach and into Switzerland.Ìý Then Lucerne and on to Gotthard Tunnel [take the St Gotthard Pass if you have an hour to spar, including stop for view] and on into ItalyÌýMy stops are at Castel Les Sorbieres [chateau by the Moselle - a small detour in Belgium] and just outside Lucerne.Ìý Coming back we manage with one stop in the Novotel at Nancy Ouest [Laxou].ÌýÌýÌýÌý Castel Les Sorbires has the best food ever!Ìý ÌýIn a couple of weeks we are doing the Dover Dunkirk route for the fist time - my son has done it and says its great as there are no coach partiesÌýon the boat!
Our 'least favourite airline' appears [if 'googling' is to be believed] to have been checking hand luggage weights for some time [but not always]ÌýOn a similar vein - Ìý could provide an answer
Does anyone know what [if any] train services are running in the surrounding area?ÌýÌýI assume that nothing is moving in the explosion area - but are there any services running in the general area?
- Unless we are to get umpteen different 'healthcare' groups - surely it is best to have a single Group that people can search through