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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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July 2023 – Orvieto Recap
First trip where we weren’t ready to return home. Powerful words. Will try to figure out what made this trip different Flight over was pretty easy. Finnair was…
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June 2023 – Lets catch you up
Why Italy? Well there are tons of obvious reasons, but some personal ones have to do with our travel history. We’ve traveled most of our lives and love…
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August 2021 – The early days, first property searches
August 23rd, 2021. A look back at the early days. We had completed the SmartMoveItaly.com classes and feeling well educated on a number of things to consider if…