Been driving all around lately, taking it in. They say that when we're away we'll realise how great life is here, and how its as good as any place in the world &c. And this is true: home isn't called home by mistake, and of course you're going to miss it, of course you're going to compare and enumerate the reasons why home is so good and worth returning to.
But the best place in the world? I hope not, or why go at all? And if there's a place that we like better perhaps we'll stay there, and call it home, and start the process again. And if we don't find anywhere better, going won't have been a waste of time - and returning will be triumphant. We aren't looking for somewhere better anyway.
We're looking for something different.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Damn Plans
Someone said tonight that we are "moving to southern Italy". Sounds good, but that's not exactly the plan.
The plan: travel to Rome and then south to Calabria, where we will stay in Piminoro village, not far from Reggio Calabria in the deep south. Our home will be a small house belonging to Melissa's cousin. So far, that Someone was almost right.
Live for a short while in Piminoro, then travel back up through Italy to Santa Caterina, near Venice.
Just buzzing from the news tonight that we have been offerd another house in eastern Sicily, near Taormina, a town called Francavilla or Francavilla di Sicilia. So next we want to travel there and see lots of Sicily, and when my Mum comes to meet us there we will also go to Malta and hopefully Greece, all four of us.
The rest is a bit hazy, but includes a stint of working in the UK, including travels of Scotland and Ireland, then trips to Sweden and parts of Eastern Europe. At some point we will return to Piminoro or even Francavilla for a rest and recoup.
So no long-term living in southern Italy, more's the pity. Too much here for us at home.We may not be home til late next year.
Christmas 2008 in Australia or Europe? Hmmmmmmm
The plan: travel to Rome and then south to Calabria, where we will stay in Piminoro village, not far from Reggio Calabria in the deep south. Our home will be a small house belonging to Melissa's cousin. So far, that Someone was almost right.
Live for a short while in Piminoro, then travel back up through Italy to Santa Caterina, near Venice.
Just buzzing from the news tonight that we have been offerd another house in eastern Sicily, near Taormina, a town called Francavilla or Francavilla di Sicilia. So next we want to travel there and see lots of Sicily, and when my Mum comes to meet us there we will also go to Malta and hopefully Greece, all four of us.
The rest is a bit hazy, but includes a stint of working in the UK, including travels of Scotland and Ireland, then trips to Sweden and parts of Eastern Europe. At some point we will return to Piminoro or even Francavilla for a rest and recoup.
So no long-term living in southern Italy, more's the pity. Too much here for us at home.We may not be home til late next year.
Christmas 2008 in Australia or Europe? Hmmmmmmm
Monday, December 10, 2007
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Locked In
Lying in the pool today, looking up at the house through the palms and bushes, I wondered about the year to come. The rest of the world is, of course, fascinating. But don't let's get too far from here, and what I've achieved up until now. This view from the pool is someone elses's dream perhaps, yet real and comforting to me. No matter how far we go and what we find when we get there: this is home, the first step.
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