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May 2025 – Retirement is a full time job
This months photo comes from our new chickens. Several already laying, we’ve eaten many and given gifts to our Italian friends. Immigration This is a big milestone. George…
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April 2025 – The journey continues
Summary In April we had visitors from the US and France. We continued our efforts on the PdS (Permesso di Soggiorno) which allow us to fully integrate into…
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March 2025 – Looking to Spring
Summary March we (finally) finalized the purchase of the house, its litterally and figuratively DONE!!. We continued progress on our immigration journey. We celebrated George’s birthday and our…
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March 2025 – The house is ours!!
After 3.5 long years from our first seeing the house, we signed the paperwork to complete the purchase today. So many ups and downs along this road. We…
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February 2025 – The weary travelers
Summary February focused on finalizing the property purchase, completing additional steps for immigration, concluding septic repairs and a new well water issue. We traveled between timezones quite a…
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January 2025 – The end of the world
Summary Though a bit dramatic, the title of this post is hardly bad news, instead reflects how we spent our exile as our Italian visitor visa time ran…
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August 2024 – Inching closer
The month of August is traditionally holiday for Italians making this a short update. Almost nothing will get accomplished, so we wait until September to see things pick…
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July 2024 – Summer sizzle
We bring our visit to an end mid July. 3 weeks on this visit, the most we’ve spent so far. The demolition completed while we were here. Great…
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June 2024 – Just out of reach
June has come and gone. Much to report this month but haven’t yet landed the prize. The Compromesso had us finishing the purchase by end of June, but…
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May 2024 – The wind changes direction
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April 2024 – Frying pan into the fire?
News from Italy, apparently the person who is in charge of the approvals for demolition and amnesty has been fired!! My first reaction, frying pan into the fire?…
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March 2024 – We got hitched
Its official. We got married on March 15th. We wed at the Beverly Hills city hall with our good friend Billy as our witness. Simple, easy and both…