10 things to take when driving to Italy

[Adrian Brown]

I am driving down to Marche next month to take possession of house which we hope will have been finished by then. I intend to put a roof box on car and would be grateful if people could suggest the best things to take in the car taking into account the price, quality and availablity of things in Italy.

Adrian

[deborahandricky]

Marmite, spices, bacon, sausages.....well thats just me :-)

[Charles Phillips]

Household linens, seriously, (and it does seem Pimms is not available if you need any of that!)

[coppicer]

Yorkshire tea

[lupo]

linens, yes, bamboo poles to use the linens to make temporary accommodation yes ... and a years supply of tiny loratadine tablets - the best antidote to mosquito bites on the planet. Don't buy them from Boots else you won't be able to afford to travel over; get them from a Numark chemist for something like a third of the price.

[Adrian Brown]

Originally Posted by deborahandricky

Marmite, spices, bacon, sausages.....well thats just me :-)

We are a family of non meat eaters!!!

I was thinking of bed linen, towels, spade and fork.

[deborahandricky]

Originally Posted by Adrian Brown

We are a family of non meat eaters!!!
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Now how was I supposed to know that .......

[Cassini]

descaling tablets for the kettle, coffee maker etc.

[lupo]

Ah spades... If you take an English, or the superior, long handled, Irish ditching spade to Italy, you will at least never have to insure it against theft. I've never yet used mine over there and neither have any of my Italian friends and collaborators. OTOH i've used my italian spade for shovelling, cutting, slicing, digging, lifting and shifting antique coppi and mattone, undoing screws ... and I reckon it would easily double up for getting the Pizza in and out of the oven.

[Angie and Robert]

Agree with Charles, linens, tea, ibuprophen (?) tablets and an English iron.Friends say Italian irons dont get hot enough so they have given up ironing all together, not a bad thing.Oh an an English toaster, Italian ones are very weird and take 10mins to achieve a pale brown colour,which is then inedible.
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