I usually drive to Italy with my old style UK paper drivers licence with no photo. Back in early 2020 this was also good to show for car hire. Have the rules changed since Brexit? is an old style UK paper licence still valid for car hire? The
Just in case it might help anyone not already aware. My comune is discounting the costs of IMU by 37.5% for second home owners resident abroad who are in receipt of a recognized pension as proof of retired status.
Any recommendations on an Italian bank? I have used MPS for years and they are fine and I can manage stuff online but they seem expensive, I assume to pay for an extensive branch network.
I have total sympathy for this predicament through personal family experience and the lessons are to compromise to get something and a resolution or risk a lingering problem with cost risk and ultimately getting nothing and the next lesson is not to pass on a problem to my kids.
Alan, as a backstop I have written out that on a single sheet that i want my property/assets in Italy to be distributed as per my English will. This can be written in English or Italian and just needs your signature and date and to be filed alongside any English will. Of course eventually the English version would need to be translated but then so would the English will. This is to try and avoid Italian 'eredi necessari' hierarchy rules applying. Others might say that this is not totally reliable, fair enough, and that plan B would be to transfer it now to heirs, but that then means they have to take on paying the taxes, costs, etc otherwise HMRC will not regard it as a valid transfer.
Good link from Alan. Bologna is mainly flat and underrated with lots of covered arcades. Parma ditto. Also a foodie region. Milan is pretty good as a city break that pretty good with accessibility.
There is a tour trip cabin at Ponte della Maddalena, at Borgo a Mozzano that does sells trips. Nice restaurant and bar across the road from the bridge. Nearby towards the Campo sportivo an actual wall that was an anti tank barrier. Easily missed and it would have once straddled the road. There are odd fortifications but mainly trenches overlooking roads. There are various bunkers on the road that climbs up to Lucca from Pisa.
If you are in the UK then it is better to visit the consulate websites and then visit the nearest consulate in London, Birmingham, not sure where else located, if you are lucky enough to live near to them. My experience is that they are poor at answering calls. Outside London the consular staff are busy and largely manned by volunteers.
Again just use his birth cert. His record will be in the comune in which he was last resident. When he left he will have remained domiciled there and his residence will have been, I guess abroad. For example my father left Italy and his last permanent commune became his domicilio. It then became my domicilio when my birth was registered to be alongside his record. I don't live in Italy so I am not residente but I have to have an Italian base as an Italian citizen hence I have a domicilio.
Just use what is on his Italian birth certificate as that is the official record back in Italy. It was common in rural communities to register a birth when next in town so the recorded date would be 2-3 days after the actual birth date.
I agree with the other posts. I've taught Italian in the UK in the past and I found that we don't really learn English grammar which is a problem if not done a foreign language such as french. Immersion is fine for the ear but I would strongly recommend something like Italian for You. A bit dated but similar available. A bit of a slog to start with putting in essential language building blocks but it will start to click and it really does pay back in the end as you will not be limited to set phrases. You can also do it away from home.
France and Italy have introduced fuel duty cuts. I think it is 25 c per litre in France and 30 c per litre in Italy. The Italian reduction is until 17 October, the french cut is also temporary. In Tuscany it is 1.58 at the local hypermarket and circa 1.73 ish elsewhere. The french have complained that the swiss are popping over into France to fill up. Enjoy while you can.
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I have total sympathy for this predicament through personal family experience and the lessons are to compromise to get something and a resolution or risk a lingering problem with cost risk and ultimately getting nothing and the next lesson is not to pass on a problem to my kids.
Alan, as a backstop I have written out that on a single sheet that i want my property/assets in Italy to be distributed as per my English will. This can be written in English or Italian and just needs your signature and date and to be filed alongside any English will. Of course eventually the English version would need to be translated but then so would the English will. This is to try and avoid Italian 'eredi necessari' hierarchy rules applying. Others might say that this is not totally reliable, fair enough, and that plan B would be to transfer it now to heirs, but that then means they have to take on paying the taxes, costs, etc otherwise HMRC will not regard it as a valid transfer.
Good link from Alan. Bologna is mainly flat and underrated with lots of covered arcades. Parma ditto. Also a foodie region. Milan is pretty good as a city break that pretty good with accessibility.
There is a tour trip cabin at Ponte della Maddalena, at Borgo a Mozzano that does sells trips. Nice restaurant and bar across the road from the bridge. Nearby towards the Campo sportivo an actual wall that was an anti tank barrier. Easily missed and it would have once straddled the road. There are odd fortifications but mainly trenches overlooking roads. There are various bunkers on the road that climbs up to Lucca from Pisa.
I do online banking and use a non Italian phone where I get my access text when I log on.
If you are in the UK then it is better to visit the consulate websites and then visit the nearest consulate in London, Birmingham, not sure where else located, if you are lucky enough to live near to them. My experience is that they are poor at answering calls. Outside London the consular staff are busy and largely manned by volunteers.
Again just use his birth cert. His record will be in the comune in which he was last resident. When he left he will have remained domiciled there and his residence will have been, I guess abroad. For example my father left Italy and his last permanent commune became his domicilio. It then became my domicilio when my birth was registered to be alongside his record. I don't live in Italy so I am not residente but I have to have an Italian base as an Italian citizen hence I have a domicilio.
Just use what is on his Italian birth certificate as that is the official record back in Italy. It was common in rural communities to register a birth when next in town so the recorded date would be 2-3 days after the actual birth date.
I agree with the other posts. I've taught Italian in the UK in the past and I found that we don't really learn English grammar which is a problem if not done a foreign language such as french. Immersion is fine for the ear but I would strongly recommend something like Italian for You. A bit dated but similar available. A bit of a slog to start with putting in essential language building blocks but it will start to click and it really does pay back in the end as you will not be limited to set phrases. You can also do it away from home.
France and Italy have introduced fuel duty cuts. I think it is 25 c per litre in France and 30 c per litre in Italy. The Italian reduction is until 17 October, the french cut is also temporary. In Tuscany it is 1.58 at the local hypermarket and circa 1.73 ish elsewhere. The french have complained that the swiss are popping over into France to fill up. Enjoy while you can.
Many thanks, I hadn't thought of them at all.