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The arrival of Autumn here in Torri has finally brought a slight lowering of temperature and nature is at last showing signs of her preparat...

Just as there are many things about English life that a foreigner would find amusing or strange, here in Italy we remark upon many things th...

Our apartment here in Torri is built to a pattern that is common all over the Mediterranean, the walls massively constructed in stone and ro...

Only in our third week here and we are learning that there is a lot to know about the tiny village that has become our winter home. The real...

This is day three of six months of living in our Italian home in Torri. Easy words to write but not quite so easy to grasp. Almost without e...

In the space of little more than a week our latitude has reduced from 56.4 ° to 43.8 ° N and as expected, the most immediately noticeable ...

Tonight will be our last night in the marina boatyard on board Cirrus before we depart for our winter home. Sleep might not, however, come e...

It was all over in a matter of minutes. One moment we were manoeuvring Cirrus stern-first towards the marina slip, a delicate operation best...