Doing Italy

Did you see this article published on ? About a Finnish family who moved to Sicily and didn’t like it, especially because of the style and quality of the education system there… and so now just a few months after getting to Italy, they are moving to Spain.
Now there and lots and lots and lots of things I can say about this… and what went wrong…
But I think the biggest mistake they made is not adequately analyzing and studying the situation. Not knowing what they were getting into.
We all come from our respective cultures and country processes, and it’s human nature to think things will more or less work a d function like they do “back home”.

But that’s not always the case.

I’ll always remember a book a professor reference during my first year of grad school in Italy calling culture the “invisible elephant”. It’s the huge thing that influences everything but being invisibile we don’t realize it.

Or put it another way - Sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know.

This exactly my I created my Move to Italy Masterclass. To help people moving to Italy avoid these types of costly mistakes.
I help my students tease out the various questions that they may not have thought about.
Plus, I help them realize that Italy is quite different from one area to another. So maybe they don’t like the public school system in that area, but could have found a private school or a public school in a different area within Italy that was more in line with their preferences and their family’s needs.

If you want help moving to Italy, and want to avoid a gazillion of the mistakes most expats make when doing so, then reach out to us.

We’ll be so happy to help.

I decided to go to the for my year in view and annual (year to come) planning.
They still had their Christmas decorations up, which I think are absolutely stunning. Plus, let’s be honest the space is breathtakingly gorgeous in general.
How about you? Did you take time out to set your goals and intentions for the coming year?Or looked back to see what worked AND what didn’t work from the past year?

You have an intriguing IG LIVE coming your way!

I’ll be chatting with Zoe from on her incredible journey to moving to Italy.

Her story is filled with nail biting twists & turns that seemed may would say were ordained by a higher force…

Today Bis Nonna (great grandma) Renata turned 99 years old.
An accomplishment in itself, but even more impressive if you consider how mentally and physically sound she is.

I’m particularly fond of her, I love her s***k and her I’m not messing around personality. I’m also very aware of how lucky I am that even at her ripe age, she has always been super welcoming and loving of her black grand daughter in law and “mixed” great grand son.