My place is between Lakes Orta and Maggiore, and I have used Flybe in the past to fly from Birmingham to Milan Malpensa.Looking for flights in Sept/Oct, I was disappointed at the high costs - so went to the Easyjet site to look at the Luton to Tur
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I have often advocated swinging up through Belgium when travelling from UK to Italy, on the grounds of the cheap petrol in Luxembourg and toll free motorways. I did this route again a couple of weeks ago, but found the roadworks on the Dunkirk-Lil
 I thought it might help people not break the law [or get caught breaking it] to some info on speed cameras they might come across in driving down to Italy. [This really applies to people like me who don’t have a sat-nav that tells them all the in
When driving to Italy, [Lake Maggiore area], from Calais, I almost always drive up towards Dunkirk and then head East towards Luxembourg.   The reasons for doing so is simple:-
If you are driving down to Italy, this regularly updated AA site gives you the latest info on fuel prices across Europe. Its useful for deciding where to fill up. Note - in Luxembourg, [where I always fill up - its worth the minor detour from Cal
.     I heard this today on Radio 4.  I take it you already know of tough and bough and cough and dough?Others may stumble, but not you,On hiccough, thorough, lough** and through.Well done!
.   I'm considering handing over ownership of my ½ûÂþÌìÌà Holiday Home to my kids. Does anyone know
- How easy this is to do, and how costly?
- Whether this can be done in the UK - or do I have to do it in Italy?
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 When I opened my ½ûÂþÌìÌà bank account, I put enough money in to pay about a years bills [I pay gas and electric by Direct Debits] and just top it up [with money from an ATM] whenever I'm over there  This may not be the cheapest way - but its easy and I know the cash is in the account.
 Annec - thanks for the posting - brought back a few memories My Dad was a D Day Dodger. He never ever really spoke about his war - and I only ever remember hearing him sing the song once, when he was well lubricated after winning a hard fought criket match [a local Cup Final, I think] - the whole pub was silent as people joined in or just hummed along He was 'lucky' as he fought his way right up the spine of Italy to the North, where [I believe] he worked with the Partisans, and he was never a POW  I keep meaning to get his war record, and perhaps visit some of the places he fought.
 I think you need a cooker thats set up for that type of LPG gas. You can't just take over a 'mains' gas cooker and connect it to LPG supply  see   for examples
Shame they decided to charge for them - they should be free
 Have you considered just sealing the existing 'plaster' and plastering over it to give a clean surface for decoration.  I appreciate you don't get exposed brick walls - but it could be cheaper, cleaner and quicker than sandblasting
You could try setting up a new Group [called 'For Sale' perhaps] to see if there is any interest
We stayed [a few years ago now] at the Il Nido Hotel when I travelled by train to Sorrento It is outside of Sorrento, but does a free minibus shuttle to and from Sorrento [the timetable is on the website] Â Views from the rooms are to die for, and the evening meals were great [quality and quantity - in fact a couple of times we went into town in the evening for a smaller meal!] Very friendly place - and it was where we were first introduced to homemade Limoncello!!!!
 Would you be allowed to do the following  1. Apply a thinnish [say 50mm thick] screed to the roof, laid to a fall of about 1 in 100 [draining to the edges] 2. Apply waterproof finish [say 2 or 3 layers of bitumen] to seal the roof 3. Lay 100mm thick [or thicker] industrial polystyrene type insulation boarding, for the insulation required 4. Cover with tiles, slabs or gravel to hold down the imnsulation. If you want to use the roof, I'd use slabs or tiles - laid directly on the insulation withh no cement or fixative, butt jointed.  This would work well, but relies on the concrete roof being strong enough [it should be - ask the geometra/builder]
This sounds like a job for a geometra - use a local one - he'll get all the required permessos [there are bound to be some needed], and he might just get the council to look at their drain!
 Knowing the love that ½ûÂþÌìÌÃs have for bureaucracy - the cons will be enormous