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Summer has only just begun, but Southern Italy is already ablaze again.
Summer in Southern Italy usually begins in June. In the month of June, temperatures suddenly rise from 23 to 30 degrees, and that always requires a bit of a shift. One day you are walking around in long sleeves and long trousers, the next day you have to go looking for your shorts and T-shirts again. For […] More
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In Italy, it pays to get up early in the summer.
This morning I was already awake at 5 o'clock. It was already getting warm in the house and I had gone to sleep early. That is the beauty of it here in Italy; it gets light very early, but dark again early. I think nature arranged it that way for the people who have to work at the […] More
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And then spring arrived…
Sunday morning, 6 o'clock. For the first time, we are woken by the sun in our faces shining in through the bedroom window. It is the first time, because until now you had to get out of bed to see the sun rise over the land. With that blue sky, it looks like […] More
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Non-stop rain…
Thursday afternoon, April 2nd, at 4:00 PM: a memorable moment has taken place. The rain has finally stopped and the sun is trying to break through again. For the past 2 days, we have had nonstop rain. Roads were flooded and impassable, the farmlands look like the floodplains I used to always see near my hometown when the IJssel again […] More
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Our life in the South Italian countryside is exactly the life we envisioned.
Two months ago, we traded our house in a small village for a house in the countryside. This afternoon, we were sitting outside on the bench, taking stock of whether life in the countryside has brought us what we had hoped for. We came to the conclusion that we made the right choice […] More
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