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Forum: Italy
Dec 14th 2025, 12:49 am
Replies: 1
Views: 796
Posted By heritagestanley

Carer's visa

Does anyone here have experience or knowledge of the relatively new carer's visa?
We have some elderly friends who need care and the ideal solution would be for their son to stay and look after...
Forum: Italy
Nov 5th 2025, 6:56 am
Replies: 6
Views: 1,076
Posted By heritagestanley

Re: Translation fees

The person we sold to had given power of attorney to a fluent Italian speaker, and the people we bought from are themselves italians. So it was just us who were charged fees: both for the sale and...
Forum: Italy
Nov 5th 2025, 5:09 am
Replies: 6
Views: 1,076
Posted By heritagestanley

Translation fees

We have recently sold our house in Italy and bought another (on the same day which I gather is unusual). Although my Italian is serviceable the Notary insisted on a translator and organised someone...
Forum: Italy
Oct 5th 2025, 6:43 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 846
Posted By heritagestanley

Question Tax question

I have a house in Italy but am here for less than half a year, have no Italian income and am not tax resident. I need to transfer money into my Italian bank account to pay for house improvements. Is...
Forum: Italy
Jun 28th 2025, 4:13 am
Replies: 14
Views: 1,751
Posted By heritagestanley

Spam phone calls

Like everyone else I get what seems a lot of spam phone calls to my Italian mobile. But what puzzles me is that, more often than not when I answer the call just terminates. Do others have this...
Forum: Italy
Apr 28th 2025, 1:44 am
Replies: 16
Views: 3,018
Posted By heritagestanley

How to be an idiot

Just a little story to tell against myself, in the hope that it might amuse. Last year we brought out a vacuum cleaner from the UK and have been using it with the UK plug and an adapter. A few days...
Forum: Italy
Feb 9th 2025, 8:57 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 2,057
Posted By heritagestanley

Re: Italian Taxes on UK Pension Pot and Savings Accounts in the UK

I can recommend one. DM me and I'll give you contact details
Forum: Italy
Dec 11th 2024, 5:35 am
Replies: 32
Views: 8,536
Posted By heritagestanley

Re: Registering UK Car in Italy - From Pillar To Post!

Commiserations. But thanks for sharing your experience
Forum: Italy
Dec 1st 2024, 4:37 am
Replies: 1,457
Views: 302,977
Posted By heritagestanley

Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.

After the outrage about tinned spaghetti carbonara and pigs in blankets carbonara, it may be of some comfort to know that the UK food industry has now turned its guns on the home market. Waitrose ...
Forum: Portugal
Oct 25th 2024, 2:29 am
Replies: 5
Views: 2,674
Posted By heritagestanley

Prednisolone

Does anyone know if it's possible to buy Prednisolone over the counter (i.e. without prescription) in Portugal?.
Forum: Italy
Sep 29th 2024, 7:07 am
Replies: 1
Views: 579
Posted By heritagestanley

Water

Does anyone know if water companies are required to supply houses that are occupied by residents of the comune? They can presumably charge for making the connection, but is there any recourse if they...
Forum: Spain
Sep 21st 2024, 2:57 am
Replies: 16
Views: 2,245
Posted By heritagestanley

Re: UK husband ES wife (UK residents) Using Gibraltar land crossing after 90 day

I'm not sure why the OP said at the outset that when he left Spain for Gibraltar he'd need to be accompanied by his wife. Am I missing something?
Forum: Italy
Jul 11th 2024, 10:22 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 745
Posted By heritagestanley

Re: Milan Malpensa Airport

It's very unimaginative to name airports after dead people. Why not flog off to the highest bidder the right to name the airport after yourself?
Forum: Italy
May 2nd 2024, 1:10 am
Replies: 1
Views: 800
Posted By heritagestanley

Electricity supply maggior tutela

At present our electricity supplier is servizio elettrico nazionale under a maggior tutela contract. It seems that, after several delays, customers will be shifted off the maggior tutela system...
Forum: Italy
Apr 25th 2024, 11:51 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 1,517
Posted By heritagestanley

Re: It's effing freezing.

The good news though is that the return of winter has revived the sprout season. A friend of ours who was in hospital for a couple of days was given sprouts, presumably on the traditional medical...
Forum: Italy
Mar 13th 2024, 9:53 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 808
Posted By heritagestanley

Re: Piazza Armerina mosaics

There is an equivalent of the National Trust: FAI. It doesn't own nearly so many properties and they are very unevenly spread across Italy. But a few times a year they organise open days to a wider...
Forum: Italy
Mar 12th 2024, 10:04 am
Replies: 10
Views: 808
Posted By heritagestanley

Piazza Armerina mosaics

There's a story in today's The Times indicating that the famous mosaics have been allowed to deteriorate as a result of poor maintenance and suggesting that the Sicilian authorities have been guilty...
Forum: Italy
Dec 16th 2023, 11:11 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 1,543
Posted By heritagestanley

Re: Christmas greetings

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A sprout for Lorna
Forum: Italy
Dec 16th 2023, 12:08 am
Replies: 15
Views: 1,543
Posted By heritagestanley

Christmas greetings

Well, this forum seems to have fallen into a deep sleep: no new posts for days! Come on guys - the time for a snooze is after stuffing your face at Christmas, not before. So can I just send everyone...
Forum: Italy
Nov 14th 2023, 3:04 am
Replies: 6
Views: 1,334
Posted By heritagestanley

Re: Driving UK license plate car without Italian registration

And does "resident" in this context mean a) full-time resident b) resident for at least 6 months a year i.e. fiscal resident c) anyone inscribed in the local anagrafe?
Forum: Italy
Nov 1st 2023, 3:35 am
Replies: 2
Views: 521
Posted By heritagestanley

Re: Degree Certification for Blue Card

Sorry: I can't myself help, but was hoping that someone else on the Forum could, because the daughter of an Italian friend went to a Scottish university and has had real difficulty in getting her...
Forum: Italy
Oct 26th 2023, 11:05 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 745
Posted By heritagestanley

Ministry of Culture

According to today's papers the Minister, Sangiuliano, sees his junior Minister Sgarbi only once every three months, saying that he wants to have as little to do with him as possible, and criticising...
Forum: Italy
Oct 26th 2023, 1:28 am
Replies: 11
Views: 1,812
Posted By heritagestanley

Re: Best bank in Italy (Puglia)?

We use Intesa Sanpaolo and are happy with them. Their mobile app is easy to use.
​So far as I can tell all Italian banks are expensive compared to the UK.
Forum: Italy
Jul 17th 2023, 6:22 am
Replies: 6
Views: 2,659
Posted By heritagestanley

Re: Anyone had recent problems with passport stamps? And EES query.

As I understand it, when EES comes in someone with the Brexit carta di soggiorno is supposed to not use the e-gates but instead show the carta to the border guards. The point being that the e-gates...
Forum: Italy
Jul 13th 2023, 7:43 pm
Replies: 49
Views: 5,275
Posted By heritagestanley

Re: Relocating to Italy - context & questions

Austria grants citizenship to the descendants of people who lost it as a result of Nazi persecution, and allows them dual citizenship. There are quite a few of us around!
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