La Festa della Bomba? – well, not exactly….

Posted on by July 2, 2018

Our town loves a good festival. Honestly, from May until October there is something going on every single week. This weekend we were looking forward to a 3X3 Basketball Tournament that was to run from Thursday through Sunday. Sunday turned into a “maybe”, because today, Sunday, the Army was removing a WWII bomb from the river near the railway bridge coming into our town. It was discovered in March. Some folks ask me why it took 2-1/2 months to finalize the removal. The bomb had been there 74 years, and if undisturbed would pose no immediate threat, so it was decided that a calm and well planned evacuation of the town was in order! So today, almost the entire town (5000 of the town’s 7000 inhabitants) was evacuated for the procedure. The final day of the basketball festival would be at the mercy of the removal efforts of the army.

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Danita’s Guide to acquiring the Carta di Soggiorno (Residence Card)

Posted on by July 2, 2018

My husband Joe and I have been living in Italy off and on since May, 2016.  For the first 14 months, it was more off than on.  For those first 14 months, we were here in Italy for a total of 219 days.  Only once in that time did we come “close” to hitting the 90 in 180 days rule, and when we flew out through Germany on the 89th day the German immigration officer perused my passport for a good 3 minutes before letting me through!  It felt like 30!

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