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We've now been in Sicily for approaching four years, and I'm still surprised by how much of this gorgeous island we still have to explore! Last month, we visited Sicily's southern coast and had a wonderful first post-lockdown weekend in Marina di Ragusa. Our goal was really just to find a house with a pool and near a b [...]
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A month. Really, since I'm writing this later than I intended, it's actually been more like 32 days of lockdown. More than a month since our kids have left the property. Wow. I will preface this, as usual, with a message for our friends and family: we are healthy, we are safe, we have everything we need. Adding: tha [...]
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Our stay at the Edelweiss military resort
Hellllo! Welcome to another chapter of "Kasey's long overdue posts about less-than-recent trips." It's become a bit of a tradition, no? Anyway, we spent a week around Thanksgiving in Bavaria and Austria with our kiddos, and two important th [...] → more
Hello! It's been a bit so I thought I'd pop by to say hi. As you might imagine, we've been grounded for quite a few weeks now while we wait for our baby boy to make his grand entrance. Which, by the way, should be scary soon -- tomorrow marks 39 weeks, so we have at most about two weeks left. Whaaaaaaaaaat. [...]
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As I type this, there is a chicken head somewhere in my house. It still has eyes. And a beak, and a tongue. Also, it now has a name. Just in case you couldn't have gathered this from the fact that I'm even writing about it, this is a family first. It's been a while since I've had a classic Kasey misadventure to p [...]
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Thinking about heading to Oktoberfest in Munich? The fest starts Sept. 22 (Sept. 22 now in 2019!), but winter and spring is the time to start planning, especially if you want table reservations in one of the famous beer tents at the Oktoberfest. Chris and I have been twice to the Munich celebration and highly recommend [...]
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Happy New Year, everyone!* Having looked back over some of our favorite things from last year, I wanted to take a moment to talk about some of the things we're excited abou [...]
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Pictured: Panetone, a classic Sicilian Christmas food. First, a belated Merry Christmas, all! We hope that you are all having a wonderful holiday season. This was our first year in Sicily for Christmas (we went back to the States last year) AND our first year celebrating the holidays without extended f [...]
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15 great gifts for travelers
Got a friend who loves travel? Know a kid with more passport stamps than most adults? Pull up a chair, because we've got gift ideas for you here! Here are 15 great gifts for travelers of all ages, just waiting to inspire you.
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I can't remember if I've mentioned it, but Owen (who turns 5 next week!) has turned into quite the little museum enthusiast. (He was real pissed when the adults lost interest in the Deutsche [...]
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The weather has been beautiful (and HOT!) here in Sicily, and we've been keeping busy! Our main goal on a daily basis is to leave the house, as even though it is about 10 degrees cooler up on our mountain than it is at base, it is still broiling. We have air conditioning, but currently the main AC system isn't working [...]
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During the first hectic couple of weeks here, when everything was either baffling or infuriating or both (I'm looking at you, government bureaucracy), Chris and I said more than once that we kind of wished we could fast-forward six months to when everything would have calmed down. Six months was always the marker we u [...]
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So, yesterday Tuseday our first-ever overnight guest arrived! Our friend Mike (who we stayed with in Naples) is on the island for work, so he is staying with us so we can all hang out. If we haven't scared him off by Friday, his wife is also going to join us and we are go [...]
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Well, somehow it has been more than two weeks since I posted. Um. Whoops. I certainly didn't mean to let that much time go by, but the combination of having a lot of freelance work due at the same time and just trying to get back into a routine made the days fly by. Some updates: 1) Owen started preschool! We hav [...]
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The scene:* Chris and his buddy Mike, sitting in the backseat of a stranger's vehicle somewhere in Rome. The Beach Boys' "Surfin' in the USA" is blaring and the non-English-speaking driver is singing along. A fellow passenger and birthday twin, James from Liverpool, is joining in. James' wife's jacket, studded with [...]
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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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