If you are planning to book travel in the future through a website like Hotels.com or Expedia, you might want to try […]
So, as foreshadowed by this post our account of our weekend in the south begins with two more car-related incidents. Incident One: […]
Chris’ summary of buying a car here, in our experience: “We’d like to buy a car, please.” “Haha, LOL, good luck.” So, […]
The scene: The four of us are driving along, enjoying the scenery as we traveled south and discussing whether the extensive stacked-stone […]
Today marks one month since we arrived in Sicily! It’s an odd milestone – I can believe it, but it is weird […]
Wooohoo! As soon as I posted my last update, we learned that the electric has been switched to our name! We should […]
No day trip to Catania is complete without a visit to the Catania fish market and Elephant Square! Despite some insane driving […]
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 […]
… ok, Chris keeps insisting that I’m being unfair to Google Maps here because it is (probably) not its fault. But my […]
So it turns out that what we thought was true love with the vineyard house was just a temporary infatuation. We have […]
Note: This was written last night (Sunday), but didn’t get posted. Whoops. Today (somehow) marks two weeks since we arrived in Sicily. […]
Yesterday, I tried driving somewhere other than to the two bases and I’m pleased to say it went pretty well! We made […]
So, we think we may have found THE house. Gulp. We haven’t pulled the trigger yet because we still have questions and […]
Today my first baby turned 4 years old! I can’t believe how quickly time passes and how much our lives have changed […]
Well, yesterday was the one week anniversary of our arrival in Sicily so to celebrate we took our first day trip! As […]
House hunting continues Tuesday with five more houses to see (yay!), but in the meantime I’ve been meaning to talk about our […]
I posted once before about warnings I’d read about driving in Sicily. Turns out, descriptions such as “the seemingly erratic driving nature […]
Things that we should have done before coming to Sicily: 1) Learn the metric system. Kilometers/meters? Uhhhhhhhh 2) Learn how to order […]
Well, we made it! And in one piece, though the airline did lose one of our car seats (luckily we brought three […]
Well, I certainly didn’t imagine I’d go this long without blogging but … things have been insane. And now we leave tomorrow. […]
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