A quick travel recommendation

If you are planning to book travel in the future through a website like Hotels.com or Expedia, you might want to try running the transaction through Ebates first. As you probably know, Ebates is a website that purportedly sends you "big fat checks" for spending money online through the retailers affiliated with it. [...]

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The car hunt becomes urgent

Chris' summary of buying a car here, in our experience: "We'd like to buy a car, please." "Haha, LOL, good luck." So, as you may remember we are shipping our minivan to Sicily. It is on a boat somewhere in the Atlantic right now, I assume. Ever since we've arrived, we've been been looking for an island beater [...]

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A weekend away — Modica

The scene: The four of us are driving along, enjoying the scenery as we traveled south and discussing whether the extensive stacked-stone fences we saw might have been built with rubble from old buildings. And then our car got literally showered with golf ball-sized rocks. And we yelled.

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One month down: some thoughts on goals here

Today marks one month since we arrived in Sicily! It’s an odd milestone – I can believe it, but it is weird because it has been such a blur. In that time we’ve fit in three day trips, house hunting, miles of paperwork and a lot of pizza and pasta eating. But to be honest, it is hard for me to be nostalgic tod [...]

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We got the house!

Wooohoo! As soon as I posted my last update, we learned that the electric has been switched to our name! We should be good to go now! Only another couple weeks until we can move in! I'm SO RELIEVED. To celebrate, here is a cute picture of my cute kids doing something cute. Because cute.

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Day trip to Catania

No day trip to Catania is complete without a visit to the Catania fish market and Elephant Square! Despite some insane driving "techniques" common in Catania, we enjoyed our day trip here. If you are visiting Sicily, a day trip to Catania is worth the hassle of driving!

It’s only about 3 p.m. here* at the m [...]

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Just a little catch up!

Hey all, it's been a few days. I'd say we've been super busy, but honestly we've mostly been relaxing. And, ok, a little busy (finishing my first new freelance assignment since I got here, woohoo). Anyway, just a quick recap of the week: 1) Friday night Chris and I got our first date night since we arrived! [...]

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