Swiss Motorway Vignette - Online E-Purchase.
You can now buy a e-vignette online. All electronic, so no sticker issued. It work by using your car number plate.
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Questions Asked
We used to use Book Depository to get books for our Italian friends at Christmas.
Book Depository now closed. Does anyone know of an Italian (or EU) bookshop that will accept orders from the UK and deliver to an Italian address?
Sat, 12/02/2023 - 07:37
Train travel from UK to Italy
Wed, 11/22/2023 - 13:42
Open Log Fires in Piemonte [and other areas]
Tue, 09/19/2023 - 05:36
DRIVING THROUGH FRANCE - LOW EMISSION ZONES.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66449514
Bought mine - less than £5 all in. Took about a week to arrive.
Wed, 08/09/2023 - 09:25
EU Entry Permit Required From 2024
Mon, 06/26/2023 - 04:08
IMU DISCOUNT FOR UK PENSIONERS
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
Driving to Italy
Just driven down. No longer cheap petrol in Switzerland - fill up in France.
Even Italian petrol is appreciably cheaper than Switzerland
(There was no petrol available in Mulhouse for some reason)
Wed, 09/14/2022 - 06:49
IMU Tax
Don't forget the first payment is due by 16th June
Sat, 05/14/2022 - 06:35
DRIVING TO ITALY FOR CHRISTMAS
You've got until Saturday to enter France, before the entry ban for UK citizens comes into place.
Thu, 12/16/2021 - 04:33
Comments posted
Not sure you can do it in February, the French suspension of the transit rule could well be time limited - "over the New Year period " according to Sky News
France appears to be softening its stance on transit journeys
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59832076
Apparently the French Foreign Ministry say there is no ban on UK citizens who are resident in the EU from transiting France but people have been turned back by French Border Staff at Folkestone (Eurotunnel).
Could be miscommunication with Border Staff .... or just the French having a go at bashing the Brits as there is an election coming up in 2022
Double posting
Hope you made the trip.
BBC announced today that France is preventing Brits that live in EU from driving through France.
Seems to be about EU Brits not be allowed back into France from uk.
Details a bit confused at present (08.00am GMT)
I don't think that there are any special checks between Italy and France
However, assuming you are in a UK registered car, the automatic number plate system may flag up that you're a Brit, and you could get pulled over just to check you've been in Europe long enough to avoid any speciaL requirements for UK citizens entering France.
( If you're in an Italian registered car, I wouldn't expect any stop at all,,)
Hope so - I was planning for the end of January, but I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen now.
At least we got over in November.
The problem is that France is banning entry to UK citizens from 11pm Friday.
Getting to Italy by road would mean completely avoiding France.
Useful, if you lose the passport- should ease things getting help at the embassy.
I also carry photocopy of Driving Licence.
Latest advice
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/italy/entry-requirements
In particular, see the bit about date of paper certificate.
I'd suggest you take a few photocopies of any paper certificates. They do show "COPY" faintly in a box, but you can't see it easily, and they still work.
Also photocopies of Passports, just in case