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Forum: Italy
Jul 25th 2015, 5:45 am
Replies: 4
Views: 1,338
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Just got a job in Genova starting in 6 weeks!

Wow – you'd better get your skates on.

Boccadasse is a delightful little port in the Albaro area of the Comune di Genova. Depending on where your new place of work is situated, you might even be...
Forum: Italy
Jul 15th 2015, 2:36 am
Replies: 17
Views: 1,646
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Garbatellamike to become Huntingdonmike

:goodpost:
Forum: Italy
Jun 29th 2015, 10:48 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 1,850
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: practicalities of moving to italy

:goodpost:

I really don't wish to dampen your enthusiasm – it can be wonderful living in Italy – but unless you have a significant amount of capital behind you, you'd be very hard pressed to...
Forum: Italy
Jun 29th 2015, 8:27 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 911
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Wine tasting

Hi – If you go to one of the larger producers for a tour and tasting you generally do need to book in advance. Some of these larger producers charge for the tasting (€3-€5 for most wines, but a...
Forum: Italy
Jun 28th 2015, 10:47 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 911
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Wine tasting

I have spent the past few days driving around wine country visiting a number of delightful wineries. Personally I prefer to 'andare alla ventura' – and haven't yet been disappointed. If you prefer...
Forum: Italy
Jun 21st 2015, 9:29 pm
Replies: 8
Views: 1,162
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Euro bank account

Yes – they did it in August when many Italians were on holiday and skimmed a percentage of all deposits held at the end of July that year (so nobody had a chance to withdraw their cash prior to the...
Forum: Italy
Jun 17th 2015, 3:11 am
Replies: 13
Views: 1,442
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Banking

If you're a Unicredit customer and are using Safari as your browser on a Mac you may experience problems with online banking. (Something to do with the 'cache' – no pun intended!) Other browsers...
Forum: Italy
Jun 5th 2015, 9:40 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 843
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Cheap PAYG SIM for a month?

If your iPhones are unlocked; and you wish to use them for calls and texts only; and you're happy not having access to your normal telephone number for a month, then it'll be very easy: If not it...
Forum: Italy
May 19th 2015, 5:37 am
Replies: 8
Views: 1,132
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Ideas for cheap car hire insurance

:goodpost:

This is definitely the way to go: insurance4carhire.com has a brilliant product that for £40 gives you an annual cover (in Europe) for the excess payable should you cause an accident...
Forum: Italy
Apr 26th 2015, 12:31 am
Replies: 23
Views: 2,626
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: To bidet or not to bidet?

:goodpost:

How else would they wash their feet?
Forum: Italy
Mar 29th 2015, 4:37 am
Replies: 45
Views: 4,200
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Crazy drivers ?

I've noticed that since the introduction of fixed speed cameras there has been a general tendency for Italians (in Piedmont and Lombardy at least) to drive a bit less like racing drivers (all the...
Forum: Italy
Mar 1st 2015, 12:28 am
Replies: 4
Views: 844
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: UKto GE to France to Italy

Probably best to go via Mulhouse, Besançon, Bourg-en-Bresse; Lyon; Chambéry; through the Frejus Tunnel to Turin and then up to Aosta.
Forum: Italy
Feb 25th 2015, 9:28 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 1,515
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Have you got a cheap UK car in ITALY? FOR SALE

My local bar has had an advertisement on its notice board for some time – for a 1987 Panda 4x4 Sisley with 155,000 Km on the clock. The owner – 'Elda' – was originally offering this 'gioiello'...
Forum: Italy
Feb 11th 2015, 8:07 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 916
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Looking for trysting person in Turin to buy and deliver a sofa

I guess you've sorted it out or that it wasn't urgent.
Forum: Italy
Feb 10th 2015, 11:29 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 1,515
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Have you got a cheap UK car in ITALY? FOR SALE

There are nearly a million Brits living in Spain and around 25k in Italy. I guess that you can prove anything with statistics, but if there are 40 times the number of Brits in Spain compared to...
Forum: Italy
Feb 6th 2015, 8:52 pm
Replies: 4
Views: 916
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Looking for trysting person in Turin to buy and deliver a sofa

I'll be there on Thursday evening and may be able to help if it's not terribly urgent – but would appreciate more details: I definitely would not consider doing anything illegal or 'dodgy' in any...
Forum: Italy
Feb 3rd 2015, 7:21 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 839
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Some advice if you could help

:good post:

To take the dog to the UK (with Euro Tunnel) without going through all the quarantine stuff, the dog must be microchipped and have a passport (with all the right vaccination / worming...
Forum: Italy
Feb 3rd 2015, 5:05 am
Replies: 280
Views: 27,094
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Pointless English

I always thought that this practice dated back to the Fascist era / the early days of newsreels and 'talkies', and was used as a means of exercising censorship and practising propaganda. (I think...
Forum: Italy
Jan 24th 2015, 1:25 am
Replies: 93
Views: 9,423
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Indian Food in Italy

Come to think of it, that's what I've always heard it referred to in Piemonte. (Wikipedia is far from perfect, 'neh'?)
Forum: Italy
Jan 23rd 2015, 4:11 am
Replies: 93
Views: 9,423
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Indian Food in Italy

According to Wikipedia (re. horseradish):

"Further west in the Italian regions of Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, and Piedmont, it is called "barbaforte (strong beard)" and is a traditional...
Forum: Italy
Nov 17th 2014, 2:45 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 5,167
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Any advice from British people in Turin

I'm travelling long haul at the moment, but will send you a private message when I get back. PP
Forum: Italy
Nov 16th 2014, 1:11 am
Replies: 20
Views: 2,329
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: learning italian

Do you have a grounding in any other Romance language? Did you do French at school? Are you competent in any language other than English?
Forum: Italy
Oct 24th 2014, 11:41 pm
Replies: 25
Views: 2,650
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: The long road to Italy (and looking for a pit stop)

The Beaune area and any of the places down to Macon will offer you a wealth of options. Last year we broke our journey from Calais (with the dog) at "Hotel les Charmes" in the lovely town of...
Forum: Italy
Oct 22nd 2014, 12:52 am
Replies: 21
Views: 31,262
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Relocating to Milan - quality of life there?

I'm not sure if there's such a thing as a 'nice suburb' on the eastern side.

Would Monza be too far north for you?
Forum: Italy
Oct 21st 2014, 6:14 pm
Replies: 21
Views: 5,167
Posted By Pinco Pallino

Re: Any advice from British people in Turin

Good banter. In this neck of the woods the locals are very keen on their children socialising with the 'new mother tongue English children in town' – chiefly because they (mistakenly) think that...
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