Search results for "tuscany"
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198Lifestyle & CultureSeasonal, simple, convivial: How one year of living in Tuscany taught me to eat like a local
I spent one year of my life in Florence, Tuscany’s main and most famous city. Even though my overall experience of that...
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668Lifestyle & CultureCarla Bastos in Tuscany: Leaving the touristy Italy to discover the hilltop city of San Gimignano
(Editor’s note: American Carla Bastos recently expatriated to Tuscany from the United States. You can read her series about that adventure here.)...
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976Lifestyle & CultureCarla Bastos’ Greener Pastures, Pt. 5: Train-hopping through Tuscany and supporting your adopted community
(Editor’s note: This post about her challenges in Tuscany is Pt. 5 in a continuing series of posts about Carla Bastos’ efforts to...
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3.5KLifestyle & CultureFlash Festival in Tuscany: The details on Europe’s only food, wine and EDM festival
Dispatches doesn’t usually break out individual events into posts, but this is one-of-a-kind … Europe’s only wine, food and electronic music festival....
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56Lifestyle & CultureCarla Bastos in Italy: If the pros of your new country outweigh the cons of your old one, you win
Twice over the course of a few weeks this fall, I found myself entertaining guests from the States. It had been a...
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54.9KExpat EssentialsExpat Essentials: 1 euro deals on homes are attracting people back to Europe’s abandoned villages (updated)
(Editor’s note: Selling houses for a symbolic amount – 1 euro – to counter population decline in rural towns and villages is...
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148Expat EssentialsLearning Italian, Pt. 2: Okay, now for the tricky part
(Editor’s note: This is Pt. 2 of a two-part series about learning Italian. You can jump to Pt. 1 here.) Ever dream...
