La Vendemmia, Seasonal Fruit, Back to School, Restaurants, Beppo Grillo, Touring Bands, Fashion, Fiano and the Calambur. June Finnigan – English Writer & Rock Singer.The Month of September in Tuscany Benvenuti to all my lovely Loyal and New Followers, Well, here we are again reflecting back on the previous month, which in this case is … Read more
Here’s How To Fund Your New Life Anywhere In The World How are you going to be able to afford the retirement you’ve been dreaming about? Maybe you should defer the idea… keep working for five or six or more years longer… until you’ve been able to set a little more aside… Nah, that’s not … Read more
Following The Path Of Progress On This Charming Caribbean Island When you come to Belize, pay no mind to Belize City. This is the Calcutta of the Caribbean, the city a friend says he’s going to put on the cover of the “World’s Worst Cities” coffee table book he’s threatening to publish. Belize City isn’t … Read more
Like Paris But With A Wicked Sense Of Humor If I were to choose one word to describe Paris, it would be romantic. If I were to choose one word to describe Prague, a city often compared to Paris, it would be cynical … in a good way. From the point of view of an … Read more
Charity Cottage did everyone proud in September. Stuart from Canada and girlfriend Alice from Yorkshire would ordinarily have stayed in the main house, but on their proposed arrival date I was having cataract surgery in the Polyclinique. I had no idea how I would be feeling after the operation, so I cooked and froze several … Read more
Bee Eaters & Hoopoes, Teresa May, AC Milan, Ferragosta, Celebrity Weddings, Certaldo Onions and the Earthquake June Finnigan – English Writer & Rock Singer.Benvenuti to all my lovely Loyal and New Followers If you are new to my column, you should know that each month I talk about the previous one and in this case … Read more
It’s easier to adapt to a new life overseas when you move with a spouse or partner. You can laugh (or cry) together at the inevitable trying times that arise. It’s more of a challenge to move abroad on your own, and it can be even more intimidating for single women than it is for … Read more
I am typing this on (British) August Bank Holiday, in a sizzling heatwave. Our trees, notably the paulownia adjoining our patio, are shedding their leaves. When the paulownia flowered for the first time in 2015, I emailed Carmela Delcros, who had planted it as a tiny sapling when she and Georges built the house 22 … Read more
Getting an au pair can be a fantastic, entertaining and relatively inexpensive idea. But listen to the advice of others and prepare assiduously to avoid a load of potential problems. Maybe I’m being a bit of a princess since my husband moved abroad to work, but I don’t think that I can manage a very … Read more
Bentornato to my monthly column, where I bring you up to speed with the previous month’s thrills and spills in beautiful Chianti in Tuscany, Italy.The first week in July was a dust settling one for The Rock Chick Band, after a great concert in the garden of our still fairly new location in the hills … Read more