April 2008 Entries
One thing that I want to describe It's the large difference there's from Italy to Bermuda regarding clothes Prices.
Yep It' true. In Italy you can buy a new Shirt on Benetton for less than 20 USD, but I see that in Bermuda there is a Benetton shop that sell the same shirt at 200 USD!! Incredible.
Also for Jeans, for example, a Benetton or Levis jeans, you can buy in Italy in many discount sale for less than 50 USD, but in Bermuda I have found some Levis's Jeans at 150 USD. So there are a lot of differences from Italy...
During my research to find some usefull Maps for Hamilton City in Bermuda Island, I have found this very well!!
If you need a more details, you can go the official web site of YellowPages and view the complete map of Hamilton with all the current activities highlighted with an icon and also a good legend.
In the next post I will show you some usefull markets present in Hamilton. After my arrival there, I will show different prices from one to another. So stay tuned!
As I promise to you, my reader, today I will explain my experience in find a job, or better, I will tell you what opportunity this fantastic Job Agency can give to you.
For some essential NDA, I will not talk about salary, companies and contracts, It's not my business!I
Some months ago ...
I have found an interesting job agency, the name is The James Partnership.
They are in charge to find you a Job in the Bermuda Island, exclusively Business and Financial jobs, but also something in the Information Technology.
Normally they search some interesting profiles like:
Accounting
...
Today in Switzerland is my last workly day.
I have made a little party this morning and I have received two fantastic gadgets from my former collegues.
The first one, It's a fantastic Camera, the Casio Exlim S10, bottom here you can find a shot of:
The second one It's a classic Swizerland gift, the myth of Victorinox, a useful small knife.
So now, I have two new things to pay duties on the Customs!!
In the last post I have explained you some tips about Customs procedures when you arrive in Bermuda.
I hope that this can help some of you. I have to say that Bermuda Customs has a very efficient e-mail service where you can ask everything you need.
I have sent maybe around 10 emails last days and they have responded to all, with kind answer!
So now I want to give a list, (they give me by e-mail) of some good things that you don't have to pay duties for.
Non Duitable things
• Cigars 50
• Cigarettes 200
• Tobacco 0.5 kg
• Wine/Champagne 1 litre
• Spirits...
Technorati Tags: Bermuda Customs Bermuda Island is one of the most famous Island where there are low taxes. Yeah but this is not the reality when you came in Bermuda for Job. There are some different situation when you MUST or you MUST NOT pay for your things. So let's start to explain the differences. As a Visitor. If you come in Bermuda as a simple Visitor, maybe for holiday or only for a Business week, you can carry with you what...
Technorati Tags: Bermuda Race Week I have read in the blog of my friend (Tom Quinn) that this week It will start a new interesting event, for me, the annual Bermuda International Race Week. In this event you can see old and new crews make competitions on the fantastic Bermuda sea! What a Pleasure for my friend Simone, he loves so much to sail! I have also founded some nice shot here:
In this period, in principal the last week, I'm finishing my last job in Switzerland and I'm still waiting for my Temp Permit in Bermuda.
Yeah guys beleive me, this is the most worst period you can live!!
You still don't know when you will relocate, but you cannot do anything.
You still don't know the final date, but you are concious that your current job is finished, so you are unemployed!
Oh Man I really don't like wait ...
But It seems to be normal in BM. So I have to get used.
Technorati Tag: Relocating Bermuda,Work Permits During this days I see a lot of People asking in the forums, "What kind of work permits Bermuda government release?", so I have decided to help you and give you a little brief regarding actual Bermuda's work permits. Typologies. Part-Time Permit : A Part-time permit, allows a person (who is still resident in Bermuda!!I) to work no more than 9 hours a week, also if the person is a tutor or something like that. The application is around 293.00 $ (BSD). Temporary Permit : This...
Technorati Tag: e-moo.com,sell.bm Yeah off course, this is the truth! Many of you can think that only in http://www.e-moo.com you can find personal announcement regarding House rent, Car sell, and more. This is not real because there is another interesting web site in Bermuda community where you can find useful announcements, the web site is: http://sell.bm. Just today they have publicized their web portal in the Royal Gazette web site. So ... Try to enjoy it, maybe you can find what are you searching for!
Technorati Tag: Bermuda Photo It's not easy to pick up your life and your family and start for a new adventure, but this is my idea! Many of you, can think 'Why go out of Italy and start a new life in a really small Island like Bermuda is?' You can find part of the answer in the photos bottom here. This is one of the reason that convinced me to relocate there!
Technorati Tag: Raffaeu
Hi my name is Raffaele Garofalo, I was born th 12th of June, 1978, in Luino, a small Town in the north of Italy.
I'm Married since the 4 of March, 2006, and actually (when I'm writing this post) I work in Switzerland for a famous International Bank, but I live in Italy.
I'm a Solution Developer, Microsoft Certified, and bottom here you can find my School History.
High School in Verbania as a Professional Chemistry
2 years Private Degree as IT Developer
some Microsoft Certification (Actually, 2 MCTS, MCAD,...
Technorati Tag: Relocating in Bermuda,Find Job in Bermuda One of the first duty you have to solve if you want to relocate in the Bermuda Island is to find a good Job. This is because the actual law in Bermuda say that "You cannot relocate in Bermuda before you have a work Permit, to obtain a work permit you must have an employer that asks the permit for you." In this post I want to help you giving some usefull Link regarding Web Portal where you can find job vacancies. URL to Find a Job in Bermuda...
Technorati Tag: Relocating to Bermuda As to start, Because in this forum I will post my new experience to my relocation to Bermuda, I think It's correct to start by talking about this Island. As you can look at the picture below, Bermuda is a small Island. Bermuda is a British territory overseas, in the North Atlantic Ocean. It's around 1800 Km far from Florida, south of Halifax. The territory is around 180 small island, and the total area is around 53 Km°. An History Brief Bermuda was discovered by Europeans,...
Technorati Tag: Relocating Bermuda,Relocating Canada I have the pleasure to inform you that, if Everything will be ok, starting from the next month, I will relocate with my family. Now I'm working in Switzerland but I'm Italian and I live in Italy with my Wife and my sweet Dog ... Now in Italy there are a lot of problems, some about politics, some about cost of living and more .. So because I'm a IT Specialist (Microsoft) I have decided to try to relocate in a new place for a better life! So stay tuned because...