Excellent synopsis of Italian bureaucracy and so glad you worked it out. Our son had an Italian visa for a time. The last time he traveled to Italy, years after the visa expired, he was unable to enter because he never told someone somewhere he would not use the expired visa again, so he was not officially allowed to enter because he never officially gave up permission to enter...(it was a head scratching very Italian chaos out of organization time). After much dialogue in Italian in which he was thankfully still fluent, they allowed him to enter on the condition he would sign some papers and later confirm the hold was removed, with no explanation as to how to do this. Needless to say, he makes sure his flight stops somewhere else in the EU before going to visit my husband’s family in Italy.
Praying all works out on your new journey. The world definitely needs a return to true Beauty in Art and life. Fra Angelico is one of our favorites - thank you for the beautiful images.
I am about to order a Mabef easel. Last spring, I stayed at a guesthouse in Tuscany run by one of the Mabef family.
Oh, my big easel is Mabef. I need a new table easel. The crappy one I got for 15E at the Chinese store 13 years ago is about to fall apart.
Excellent synopsis of Italian bureaucracy and so glad you worked it out. Our son had an Italian visa for a time. The last time he traveled to Italy, years after the visa expired, he was unable to enter because he never told someone somewhere he would not use the expired visa again, so he was not officially allowed to enter because he never officially gave up permission to enter...(it was a head scratching very Italian chaos out of organization time). After much dialogue in Italian in which he was thankfully still fluent, they allowed him to enter on the condition he would sign some papers and later confirm the hold was removed, with no explanation as to how to do this. Needless to say, he makes sure his flight stops somewhere else in the EU before going to visit my husband’s family in Italy.
Praying all works out on your new journey. The world definitely needs a return to true Beauty in Art and life. Fra Angelico is one of our favorites - thank you for the beautiful images.
Yep , that's Italy all right. We call it "getting Italy'd"