alan h's activity

Some commune [mine included] do not send out ICI notices at all - I have to go to the office to pick up a form and fill it in [including calculating the tax due (which is very easy to do)] I believe that you are liable for ICI until your residency is confirmed [as long as its your Prima Casa]

You can get 'travel adaptors' in plenty of shops in the UK, including at airports and ferry ports. However, they are only rated at about 3.5 to 7 amps [depending on type] so you can't use them for stuff like kettles and some high tech UK hair dryers.  The plugs also can warm up quite a lot when in useI keep a couple of adaptors  for travelling to/from my holiday place in italy - but as a permanent solution I have a couple of UK '4-way' extension leads at the house, that I have cut the UK plug off of, and fitted an Italian one instead.

This site has photos of many european snakes  http://www.herp.it/go to the "Index (Common)" page and look in the index for 'Snakes' - where the many European ones are listed.  If you click on the name, the pictures pop up, and underneath the last picture it gives the snake's distribution

what did the skin look like?  Any picture?

http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_w38/waste-borders-ships.html#hdng1

For me - the 'New Activity' button does not pick up all new and amended posts - but the 'mark all as read' button does 'knock them all out' - including those not recognised by the New Activity button posts So I have to check  carefully to see what I would be missing by hitting the 'Mark all ...' button

If you log on to the Accor website  -  http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/home/index.shtml  You get a great range of hotels, from  below Formula 1 up to higher than Mercure, and a pretty good interactive map to sort out your options

The second link in my original posting - the link that referred to an overnight stop in Belguim should have been   http://www.castellessorbiers.be/UK/default.asp,        [which refers to Castel les Sorbieres, not a repeat of the Nancy hotel - http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-0407-novotel-nancy-ouest/index.shtml]l As to cost - the benefit of the Formula 1 chain is cheap and cheerful - however, as I like to make the journey a part of the holiday, [and not a mad dash to/from the channel], I prefer to pay the extra and get a good hotel with good food  [both the stops I quote above easily do that]

"As Adriatica says, pop it in the freezer (it won't freeze) "  Careful - if its a commercial limoncello, the alcoholic content probably won't be high enough to prevent freezing

"....but where do you get the litre of 90 percent proof alcohol? I don't see it on the shelves of the local shops" Try the larger supermarkets - thats where we got ours