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Forum: Italy
May 10th 2024, 11:13 am
Replies: 47
Views: 1,213
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Awkward

Back in the mid-noughties, the question 'Should the UK leave or remain in the EU?' appeared in one of my A-level Economics exam papers. It was a case study module - we were shown a random text and...
Forum: Italy
May 10th 2024, 9:52 am
Replies: 47
Views: 1,213
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Awkward

The word 'discrimination' may be inaccurate (sorry about that) - systemic injustice? Maybe it was just the absence of a level playing field. That would be an apt description.
Forum: Italy
May 9th 2024, 10:11 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 1,213
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Awkward

Lorna - I wish I'd been there to see that Italian teacher's reaction when she was shown those historical documents. What an uneducated person she was!

C.2s - in terms of trade and economy, we're...
Forum: Italy
May 7th 2024, 9:35 pm
Replies: 47
Views: 1,213
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Awkward

Nice one!

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Re C.2s I'm in category 3 (or maybe 2) on your scale of entitlement. My late grannies met each other when they were in a bomb shelter - they got married after the war. They...
Forum: Italy
May 7th 2024, 10:44 am
Replies: 47
Views: 1,213
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Awkward

It's easy to teach English in totalitarian countries.

You teach the military officers the imperative. All they do is give orders.

You teach the police officers the interrogative. All they do is...
Forum: Italy
May 7th 2024, 6:13 am
Replies: 47
Views: 1,213
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Awkward

Have fun teaching English to the cadets! I guess you'll be able to decide whether to mention it or not once you've met the group.

I remember one of my former colleagues from Oz complaining about...
Forum: Italy
May 3rd 2024, 5:51 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 450
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Venice Tourist Tax

According to the Courier (Corriere), Venice city council have filled 723,000 euros in their coffers in a week - from 25 April to 2 May. The initial cost of getting it up and running is 3 million...
Forum: Italy
Apr 26th 2024, 8:01 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 450
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Venice Tourist Tax

I certainly wouldn't mind paying a fiver to visit Venice at weekends - but I never do it anyway.

Spot checks, mmm. I wonder how the Italians are going to enforce it. Seal off the city with border...
Forum: Italy
Apr 21st 2024, 3:08 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 1,129
Posted By daniel_t

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

Just happened at Milan Malpensa airport - so I followed the advice of 'actively' waving my permanent residence card before passport. The border officer stamped my passport anyway.

It doesn't make...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Apr 7th 2024, 4:23 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 2,298
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Miss the UK. Need advice on moving back.

Yep you're absolutely right.

(N.B. Disclaimer: I'm a teacher by profession - not trained to give proper legal advice.)
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Apr 7th 2024, 4:05 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 2,298
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Miss the UK. Need advice on moving back.

Thank you for clarifying this. If you had kept on reading my reply, you should have noticed that I knew he wasn't born in the UK at the time of writing.

For your convenience, here it is:
Then, as...
Forum: Moving back or to the UK
Apr 7th 2024, 2:51 pm
Replies: 29
Views: 2,298
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Miss the UK. Need advice on moving back.

For the OP

If your grandfather was born in the UK and you only have Israeli nationality, the key question is whether you were born in the UK to your British parent who is your grandfather's child....
Forum: Italy
Apr 1st 2024, 3:21 pm
Replies: 11
Views: 416
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Saharan dust storm

Not even Salvini can save people from the dust storm. (This joke works better in Italian.)
Forum: Italy
Mar 29th 2024, 3:17 pm
Replies: 133
Views: 13,849
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Uk passport renewal from Italy

I think so - if online payment is made before 11 April.

I usually show my WA residence card before I give them my passport.
Forum: Italy
Mar 29th 2024, 3:12 pm
Replies: 133
Views: 13,849
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Uk passport renewal from Italy

That must have been an unsettling experience. Good to hear it went swimmingly the second time round - with UPS!

Poste Italiane is a bit of a joke. Up until 2020, I would get bank statements from...
Forum: Italy
Mar 28th 2024, 2:19 pm
Replies: 133
Views: 13,849
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Uk passport renewal from Italy

I had the same experience a couple of years ago, but I was sending mine by registered post (raccomandata) with Poste Italiane. They initially refused to take my old passport, but I told them I was...
Forum: Italy
Mar 28th 2024, 2:12 pm
Replies: 133
Views: 13,849
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Uk passport renewal from Italy

Fees are going up on 11 April 2024

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/update-on-passport-application-fees
Forum: Italy
Mar 21st 2024, 7:32 am
Replies: 17
Views: 930
Posted By daniel_t

Re: S1 NHS Form

Np PSG! I'm not sure you would need the S1 since you've already got the Italian EHIC, which grants you access to our NHS for at least 90 days until you re-register as a returning Brit.

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Forum: Italy
Mar 20th 2024, 9:41 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 930
Posted By daniel_t

Re: S1 NHS Form

I might be wrong, but the logic goes that the NHS in both the UK and Italy operate on a residence-based system.
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Forum: Italy
Mar 19th 2024, 9:16 am
Replies: 6
Views: 431
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Italian pension contributions and work history

When I was on the phone with HMRC last year, I was told to ring the International Pension Centre (UK) and ask them about 'transferring' my pension contributions in Italy back to Blighty. (Whatever...
Forum: Italy
Mar 15th 2024, 8:19 am
Replies: 10
Views: 416
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Piazza Armerina mosaics

It's a reference to my earlier post. Ticino happens to be Italian-speaking, but it's outside Italy.
Forum: Italy
Mar 14th 2024, 9:02 am
Replies: 10
Views: 416
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Piazza Armerina mosaics

Good point, C.2s - people stop seeing these things around them after a while. I wonder if Italy has the equivalent of our National Trust. If not, they should definitely follow the UK as an example....
Forum: Italy
Mar 13th 2024, 8:49 am
Replies: 10
Views: 416
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Piazza Armerina mosaics

I can't comment without having sufficient knowledge of it, but I wouldn't be surprised that the Italians don't look after their historical monuments.

What an irony they're replacing competent...
Forum: Italy
Mar 8th 2024, 5:18 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 667
Posted By daniel_t

Re: Free public healthcare for British residents covered by the WA

Many thanks for the update!
Forum: Italy
Feb 8th 2024, 12:48 pm
Replies: 32
Views: 3,310
Posted By daniel_t

British Corner Shop

Sorry to be the bearer of this news

I've just seen on their website that the Bristol-based British Corner Shop is in administration now :ohmy:
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