Moving to another country is interesting, infuriating, exciting, difficult, fun – it stretches the mind and opens the eyes.
This blog will explore life as lived by an outsider in one of the most beautiful corners of the earth, the Italian Riviera. How do customs here differ from those of our home country (the US)? What ideas do we take for granted which have no currency here? Where can we get (or how do we make!) a great bowl of pasta al pesto?
This will be a ‘sometimes’ blog. Comments are welcome, especially if you have news or views from the Portofino peninsula and the neighboring Ligurian towns.
An Ex-Expatriate 
Hola from Arizona. It’s freakin’ hot but we’re getting some rain. Looking forward to golf with Louis and your return.
This is an absolutely wonderful piece of creativity and a very special kind of sharing. I hope you continue to have the stamina to keep it up for a long while. I love it!!
How can we not want to come back? But you will have to come to Scotland again, perhaps this time when the heather is in bloom.
Dearest Louise, congratulations on opening of your own blog. I love your main photo of Rapallo very much! I shall visit your blog everyday. I miss Rapallo, having clear sunshining, fresh air, mare, and so on, except a few typical Ligurian, haha. In some years I want to go back there….
I am sure that your blog must be flourished like your planting in Rapallo. Big baccio~~~
Wow! Can’t wait to see Rapallo and you! Congratulations and thank you!
You have put together a wonderful-looking blog. So wonderful, in fact, that I fear that despite the unfortunate dollar/euro exchange rate, you’ll have Rapallo crawling with English-speakers in short order.
Brava te!