Demolizione!
Demolizione! In Italian or in English, the meaning is clear. The brief demolition phase, days after the gru arrived, was...
A Sense of deja vu
The morning of 20 September 2014 began with a sense of déjà vu. Once again I watched, as I had...
Acknowledgments
I wish to thank Lucia Carenini: without her this website would have remained a vague fantasy. We were mere acquaintances...
The Blog
In a way, this whole web site is a collection of different blogs: there are the letters I wrote from...
Making decisions
The letter granting permission for our building project contained several clauses about specific actions: we had to provide detailed information...
October, November, December
Once the house and land belonged to us we began exploring, clearing out, caring for, and taking full possession in...
At First Sight
The house we live in is our third home in Mondovì. When we arrived from Tbilisi in August 2012 we...
A house we like
A small brick-and-stone farmhouse, two rooms on the ground floor and two rooms above, sits empty at the edge of...
We bought a house in Italy
As Italian real estate transaction stories go, ours is unremarkable except for the result: we bought a house in Italy! ...
Arusha National Park, 6-8 April 2013
Both Moshi Town and Arusha, because of their proximity to Mount Kilimanjaro, are full of safari outfitters and trekking guides....