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First days in our new house

Well, it has been a little while again! In that time, the following things have happened: 1) We moved into our new […]

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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 […]

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Best day trips from Catania: Ragusa
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Our weekend in Modica, Ragusa and Noto, continued

So, as foreshadowed by this post our account of our weekend in the south begins with two more car-related incidents. Incident One: […]

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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, […]

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best day trips from Catania: Modica
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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Google Maps is dead to me

… ok, Chris keeps insisting that I’m being unfair to Google Maps here because it is (probably) not its fault. But my […]

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It’s love — for real this time.

So it turns out that what we thought was true love with the vineyard house was just a temporary infatuation. We have […]

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Small explosions, (inflatable) mountains climbed and Siracusa

Note: This was written last night (Sunday), but didn’t get posted. Whoops. Today (somehow) marks two weeks since we arrived in Sicily. […]

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On driving: A for effort, B for execution

Yesterday, I tried driving somewhere other than to the two bases and I’m pleased to say it went pretty well! We made […]

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House Hunters International, continued

So, we think we may have found THE house. Gulp. We haven’t pulled the trigger yet because we still have questions and […]

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Happy birthday to Owen! And we might have found a house

Today my first baby turned 4 years old! I can’t believe how quickly time passes and how much our lives have changed […]

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Our first day trip — Taormina!

Well, yesterday was the one week anniversary of our arrival in Sicily so to celebrate we took our first day trip! As […]

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Our current accommodations

House hunting continues Tuesday with five more houses to see (yay!), but in the meantime I’ve been meaning to talk about our […]

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Driving in Sicily, now that we are here

I posted once before about warnings I’d read about driving in Sicily. Turns out, descriptions such as “the seemingly erratic driving nature […]

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House Hunters Int’l — Sicily

Things that we should have done before coming to Sicily: 1) Learn the metric system. Kilometers/meters? Uhhhhhhhh 2) Learn how to order […]

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We’re here!

Well, we made it! And in one piece, though the airline did lose one of our car seats (luckily we brought three […]

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Kasey

Kasey

Hello! My name is Kasey, and I am a wife, mom, writer and travel enthusiast living in beautiful Sicily. In this blog, I hope to share our adventures and misadventures as we adjust to living overseas, learning Italian and traveling the world with two of the most fun kiddos on the planet.

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