A Blog about our Life in Italy

It may not be the fanciest site on earth as it is just the two of us doing it all. I hope though that you will find it packed with useful information.

It took me years and years to discover the “real” Italy and that is what I want my site to be about.

Although I do cover the main tourist spots I will always have a lot about the hidden corners where the tourist seldom ventures.

I never feature lots of hotels and things like that either, only a few places I know personally and can recommend with confidence.

Fed Up!

Our first home together in Italy was in Turin , a beautiful city in Italy’s North East.

My husband worked for a multinational corporation and I taught at a language school. Just after our son William was born my husband got quite ill, although it turned out to be nothing serious it gave us a huge fright.

We realized we were fed up with the rat race but neither of us had any clue as to what else we could do.

A Crazy Choice?

Andrew decided that he had had enough of corporate life and whatever we did it had to be something we loved doing. But what did we love doing? After many sleepless nights it dawned on us that we loved the place we lived in – Italy.

Everything about the country is incredible, the people, the food, the places and we had lived here for so many years and discovered so much in that time. Couldn’t we share that with the world or were we just being crazy?

A Hopeless Beginning

The internet was the obvious way to share our knowledge but both Andrew and I knew little about the internet. We tried to write a blog about our life in Italy but it just didn’t work out. We had so much to share about so many places that the blog format was all wrong. Then we built a “free” site but no visitors came.

At this point Andrew was all set to resigning himself to another thirty years of corporate life until we stumbled on SBI and finally we were able to share our passion and love for Italy with the world.

Our Vision

From the beginning both of us swore we would be honest to our principles even if it meant we made less money. We do need to earn a living but we have consistently refused to feature something if we didn’t like it.

I cannot count the times we have been approached by hotels, restaurants and other businesses to write about them and yet I doubt if more than ten percent have been good enough to be included on the site. It has cost us a lot of money but I feel better about myself and I believe that this is the only way that you, the visitor, can trust me.

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