Of Dogs and Italian Trains
A Bardonecchia Hotel
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Don’t have a car? Want to go away for the weekend? Want to take the family pooch too? Why not take the train? You can even book on line, but not if you are a dog owner in Italy.
We’re off to the mountains for a weekend break shortly. Characteristic mountain hotel is booked in a lovely looking place called Bardonecchia which is right over in the north western boundary of Italy, not much more than a piste away from France. Indeed, you know it’s near France from the French sounding names of many of the villages in the surrounding area. As you might imagine this already snow covered town presents a gorgeous photo opportunity, and I’ll be taking my trusty Canon 400d and lenses. Just try and stop me!
It all looks rosy, and it is, aside from one funny little hiccup. It should have been simple to have booked the two and half hour trip from Milan… Read more
Looking for Ex-pats in Vicenza, or Italy in General?
If ,for example ,you are looking for expats in Vicenza or some other place in Italy, then signing up for an ex pat forum may not be such a bad idea, especially if you have only just moved to Italy.
Indeed, there is an entry here on the British Expats.com forum which is an example of expats looking for others in the Vicenza area of Italy. And here is another forum with someone hunting for expats in Vicenza on the Expat Talk forum.
Whether you are an expat in Vicenza or any other part of Italy, then you can use Google to track down expat forums. Here is what you will find on the first page if you Google ‘expats in Italy’. Read more
How To Create an Italian tax code - Codice Fiscale
The Codice Fiscale is an alpha numeric code which is assigned to all Italians at birth. Anyone who comes to live and work in Italy will need this code too.
Recently a number of readers have been having problems with Italian web sites which require a codice fiscale before certain operations can be carried out. For example, online stores in Italy often request a codice fiscale before a purchase can be completed.
The trouble is, if you are not Italian, or not resident in Italy, you probably will not have one of these codes. So here is how to obtain your very own, unofficial, Italian codice fiscale.
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