I have to say, how good TI are in responding to problems, twice now in the last few months, we have had problems (not of their making), and within 24/36 hrs they have been here fixing, photographing the poles, sorting things out etc.bravo TI,S
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Well...................it looks like this site's demise is imminent, it has slipped downwards rapidly over the last few days to the point of hardly any posts, we have gone (very) slow again and it is almost on its last legs ?S
Tue, 09/20/2011 - 04:20
AGI) Rome - Out of a total of 13,500 checks on receipts issued in Rome, Jan to Aug, tax police report fines in 51pc of cases.
Thu, 09/15/2011 - 01:57
Ryanair passengers must sign up for a new branded pre-paid card available from 4 October in order to avoid an administration fee of £6 per journey.Passengers using Mastercard pre-paid cards, which currently exempt them from the fee, will be charge
Wed, 09/14/2011 - 13:17
Not sure how relevant this is at this late stage ?Italy Italian General strike 6 September, 2011Update 1 September Italian airport operational personnel, technical maintenance personnel will also strike this day from 8am to 4pm utc.
Mon, 09/05/2011 - 13:43
Some good stuff in here !http://www.corriere.it/english/11_agosto_31/mayors-publish-everyone-retu...
Thu, 09/01/2011 - 13:55
Well, early July, well into the 30s................anybody TOO hot yet ??S
Thu, 07/07/2011 - 10:09
Hi Folks,I KNOW this is an odd one...............We are travelling from Le Marche to BAVARIA (yes) in December (yes DECEMBER)......We would like to stop off for a single night on the way, we ideally would like a small town, where we can spend an a
Wed, 07/06/2011 - 13:13
Should this be a concern to us here in Italy ? Shares in Italy's banks fell sharply after Moody's threatened to cut the country's sovereign debt rating, saying structural weaknesses such as a rigid labour market pose a challenge to gro
Mon, 06/20/2011 - 16:14
Is it me, or is this year starting off very well weather wise ?............ not a lot of long-lasting snow (for us) early on and now(we are only mid June) it's 'hot'................, I recall some weeks ago having to water the gar
Sat, 06/18/2011 - 10:11
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I used to be good at sums (when I was 12 !!), That is a HUGE amount...........I'm glad we sold the lot ! I had taken the council tax band as being the council tax AMOUNT, ours would have been in excess of £1500 !...........Is this an annual charge (whilst people own the property) ? Crikey ! S
Thanks Penny, I agree, some people will not have known about it, but even so it seems only a 'piddling' amount? I worked out what ours would have been on the house that we had when we lived in the UK and it was something like €25. Even with a 40 % fine on top, it is still only €35/40. (unless my sums are wrong, which could be the case!) I wonder how much it costs to collect it ! (not that I think it shouldn't be collected by the way ) S
Rickardo, to be fair, it is also quite possible that a lot of people have taken residency because they are actually resident here, not just to avoid paying the higher tax on their purchase ? We do not own property anywhere else so presumably we are not affected by this. I do know a lot of people who do though ! Sometimes they have not been able to (or do not want to) sell their property in the UK so they have decided to rent it out. I am a bit unclear on how the tax authorities quantify the amount of tax one should pay, what is the calculation based on ? It will be an interesting one for a lot of people ! I totally agree that foreigners should not escape scrutiny, we're all in this together (someone once said !). S
Now..............who on earth would find fault with this very helpful forum eh? Bravo Ram, S
Cheers Al, Exactly my understanding........I keep telling people, do not spend too much in the way of €€€€s at this time. My main backup plan (when it becomes a need) is still VPN which we still use to utilise the recordings off iPlayer. S
Work out your anticipated data usage before you sign up is my advice ! S
Hi Al, I am in Penna San Giovanni and have an old UK Sky box with a 1 metre dish and (at the mo !?) receive all UK terrestrial channels fine for 95% of the time. I have today been around to some friends to help set up their new HD freeview box (+ sling), also with a 1 metre dish and reception is great, signal strength and signal quality both very acceptable. Obviously the bigger the better, but a 1 mtr dish is fine here. S
Portofino...............I'm very envious, we normally stay 'next door' at Santa Margherita di Ligure, one of our most favourite (is that good English ?) bits of Italy, S
In case we run out, where exactly are you !!
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In our case, we moved lock stock and barrel over here (to Italy), started learning Italian with a teacher every week before we arrived, continued with another teacher once arriving here and...................I'm useless with languages. Our immediate neighbours speak only 'dialetto'............we do have a large circle of friends who are English speaking and we see them regularly. We have made lots of Italian friends (and acquaintances) and have hosted three different Italian families around our dinner tables (one brought their own food and would not eat ours !!). But all in all we get by very well and just cannot see why we would ever go back to blighty. HOWEVER.....I would think that if 'something' serious happened to either of us, that would change our view dramatically. You make the most of what you have I suppose ? S