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 Italy. We travelled a bit, got a new monthly car rental, started olive tree maintenance, finished chicken coop. Lots of little projects. This month’s photo is from…
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 out in January. El Fin del Mundo (The end if the world). The photo was captured in Ushuaia, Argentina. Our last land stop before our cruise of…
Summary The month’s photo was taken from the very edge of the front yard at the house level. It reveals winter’s arrival, colder temps and wind. Lots of fog in the valleys and the mountain’s silhouette with the sun just rising. We celebrated the holidays in Italy for the first time, including Mark’s 60th birthday.…
September we headed back to Italy. Lots of things still up in the air, but small steps in the right direction, and many keep us busy. Our trip to Italy saw a lot of grey skies and occasional rain. We had a couple visitors this time who were passing thru on their own adventures. We…
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 back up in Italy. Luca the project Architect, reports to us that he did receive the approval from the comune that the demolition is now done and…
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 to see some actual activity, as opposed to the talking and paper shuffling. Sadly we did not get to the signature for the purchase. We are now…
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 more surprises and delays will push it out to next visit in September…we hope. Lots of folks have now joined the blog, working hard to make it…
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? While she was obviously the root cause of so much delay, would replacing her result in things suddenly moving or would her vacancy create more of the…
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 back at work later that day. How efficient, right? We dressed up a bit, sport coats and hair combed!! HAHA. Justice of the Peace was excellent, so…
We decided yesterday that we wanted to experience a local train destination. We imagined the experience good for us to be able to get around but also informing our guests on best path. Downloading the app and figuring out timelines was well within the skill set. We decided to ride early as the ride would…