Showing posts with label Expats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Expats. Show all posts

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Info on observations/comments about Italy from Expats who live there

(LAST EDITED/UPDATED: XX MONTH 2013)

Here are some links on observations/comments about living in Italy by Expats who live in Italy:

ARTICLES
BLOGS
EXPAT ADVICE
INTERVIEWS
STORIES
RESOURCES
  • Angloinfo® ITALY – "the global expat network" – "Your New Life in Italy" – "Everything you need to know about moving to Italy"
    • Angloinfo® – "the global expat network" – LIGURIA – "Life on the Italian Riviera, in English"
    • Angloinfo® – "the global expat network" – MILAN – "Life in Lombardy, in English!"
    • Angloinfo® – "the global expat network" – ROME – "Life in Rome, in English!"
    • Angloinfo® – "the global expat network" – TUSCANY – "Life in Tuscany, in English!"
    • Angloinfo® – "the global expat network" – UMBRIA – "Life in Umbria, in English!
  • Expats in Italy – "for those who dream and for those who live the dream" – Source: web site 
  • Expats living in Rome – "AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL NETWORK IN ROME FOR EXPATRIATES" – Source: web site – ""
  • Italian Reflections – "For travellers, settlers and expats alike" – Source: web site
  • ITALY - Expat Articles  – Source: Expats blogs – "An Experienced Shared"
  • Italy Expat Community for Expatriates in Italy – Free registration is required to view this web site – Source: InterNations – "CONNECTING GLOBAL MINDS"
  • Understanding Italy – "Italy, italia, Italian people, about Italian, about italy, where is Italy, Italian culture, culture of Italy, italian life" – Source: web site
MISCELLANEOUS
* = Blog entry has been updated For your specific interest, please search the web for further information using Google .

The above links as of this date are/were current. If anyone has any suggestions for any other additional web sites and/or links for reference, please feel free to post your comment and I'll update this blog entry.





Please note the above observations, comments, advice, opinions, etc. are from the authors of the above captioned blogs, articles, etc. However that being said, I personally believe that not everyone is suited to live in a foreign country.  Living in and/or working in Italy or anywhere else is a challenge to ones character, well-being, patience, perseverance, health and financial resources. Some people will and can flourish in a foreign culture and others may fail. I will be writing more in the future about the successes and on some failures.

Please note: If you want me to reply to your comment or request any further information by email, please include your email address in a separate comment. I will NOT publish any comments with an email address in it.

NOTE: If you want to leave a comment, please leave it in ENGLISH.

Broken links: Since November, 2005, I have written over 400+ blog entries with 1,000's of corresponding links/URLs for Moving2Italy2, covering a varied and wide range of topics. In the event if you come across a broken link or a non-functioning link/URL, please post a comment and report the non-functional link. I wish to thank you in advance for assisting me in the ongoing maintenance and the updating of this successful and informative blog.

Please note: I do NOT represent or endorse any of these links nor do I receive payment for listing them in my blog.

That's it for Sunday, 31 March 2013: domenica, 31 marzo 2013

Ciao, Ben

Moving2Italy2 – #1 source of links About, For or On Italy for those individuals moving, traveling or already living in Italy.

Today’s quote is an Italian proverb, author unknown.

"Ogni principio è duro."
"Every beginning is hard."

When you have a free moment or two, please read my wife's interesting and entertaining blog about our life in Italy with photographs:
Friends and Family in Italy

Going to Spain, read my new blog:Info About, For or On Spain – a source of links About, For or On Spain for those individuals traveling or already living in Spain.

Please note: The time listed below for this posting is Central European Time (CET)/ GMT+1.

(LAST EDITED/UPDATED: XX MONTH 2013)

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Info on classified ads for Expats, for other newcomers and those individuals living or planning to live in Italy

Here are some links for on-line classified ads for Expats, for newcomers and those individuals living or planning to live in Italy:

CLASSIFIED/WANT ADS FOR A WIDE RANGE OF CATEGORIES
RELATED
  • GROUPS OR WEB SITES THAT HAVE FORUMS. MESSAGE BOARDS, ETC.:
    • Expats in Italy – "for those who dream and those who live the dream" – Source: web site – registration required
    • friends in rome – "Old city znd New friends... Live the real Rome!" – "socialize and network with international and local people while discovering everything that Rome has to offer and enjoy great food and wine" – Source: web site – registration required
    • Milan – Source: easyexpat.com – In multiple languages
    • Milan Community – Source: expatriates.com – "Hello and welcome to expatriates.com - the community web site created for and by expatriates and internationally minded people everywhere."
    • Rome – Source: easyexpat.com – In multiple languages
    • RomeMama.com – "for mothers and mothers-to-be in rome, italy" – Source: web site
    • VCN-Rome – "Volunteer and Consultant Network, Rome" – registration required – Source: Yahoo!® Groups – registration required
  • RESOURCES
MISCELLANEOUS
* = Blog entry has been updated.

For your specific interest, please search the web for further information using Google .

The above links as of this date are/were current. If anyone has any suggestions for any other additional web sites and/or links for reference, please feel free to post your comment and I'll update this blog entry.

Please note: If you want me to reply to your comment or request any further information by email, please include your email address in a separate comment. I will NOT publish any comments with an email address in it.

NOTE: If you want to leave a comment, please leave it in ENGLISH.

Broken links: Since November, 2005, I have written over 300+ blog entries with 1,000's of corresponding links/URLs for Moving2Italy2, covering a varied and wide range of topics. In the event if you come across a broken link or a non-functioning link/URL, please post a comment and report the non-functional link. I wish to thank you in advance for assisting me in the ongoing maintenance and the updating of this successful and informative blog.

Please note: I do NOT represent or endorse any of these links nor do I receive payment for listing them in my blog.

That's it for Wednesday, 18 August 2010: mercoledì, 18 agosto 2010

Ciao, Ben

Moving2Italy2 – #1 source of links About, For or On Italy for those individuals moving, traveling or already living in Italy.

Today’s quote is an Italian proverb, author unknown.
"Il silenzio di un bacio vale piu di mille parole."
"The silence of a kiss is worth more than 1000 words."

When you have a free moment or two, please read my wife's interesting and entertaining blog about our life in Italy with photographs:

Friends and Family in Italy

Going to Spain, read my new blog:

Info About, For or On Spain – a source of links About, For or On Spain for those individuals traveling or already living in Spain.

Please note: The time listed below for this posting is Central European Time (CET)/ GMT+1.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Info on the Toscana (Tuscany) Region of Italy - Part 2

(LAST EDITED/UPDATED: 17 March 2009)

Here are some more links on the Toscana (Tuscany) Region of Italy - Part 2:

Today's blog entry is a continuation of the blog posting of 19 June 2007 titled, "Info on the Toscana (Tuscany) Region of Italy - Part 1".

BLOGS
  • TOSCANA/TUSCANY
    • Food scribbles – "notes on food at home and elsewhere" – indah – Location: Siena, Toscana (Tuscany)
    • If not now, when? – "One American woman. Twenty acres and a 1650 farmhouse in Tuscany. Random introspection and hilarity, depending on the day." – Viaggiatore – Location: Monte San Savino (AR), Toscana (Tuscany) – Unfortunately, Viaggiatore has returned to the States
    • Life in The City of Flowers – "Me, 2 kids and sometimes a husband (!) living in Firenze, Italy. What we love here and what we don't! Must sees, must haves and more besides. Hopefully you will see our love and enthusiasm for this beautiful city." – Alyson – Location: Firenze , Toscana (Tuscany)
    • Lucullian delights - An Italian experience – "I cook, I take photos and I post the results here. I like to cook genuine food with a lot of taste, I suppose most of us does, and I experiment quite a lot with recipes. What I post here are the successful ones, let's forget about the failures - life's too short!" – Ilva Beretta – Location: Pistoia, Toscana (Tuscany)
    • Olive Oil e Vino Dreams – "My love of everything, anything Italian started back in Spring 2002. I am going to live my dream by moving to Italy in January 2007. I hope to inspire other people to follow their hearts to a place so magical and divine. This is the ride of my lifetime, jump on if you dare..." – katerinafiore – Location: Firenze, Toscana (Tuscany)
    • Over a Tuscan Stove – "Thoughts and recipes from your Italian life coach-and cooking teacher Judy Witts of Divina Cucina Cooking School Everyone should try being Italian once a day!" – Judy Witts – Location: Toscana (Tuscany)
    • Siena is Tuscany – "La vita e' breve" – Steve Soper – Location: ?, United States
    • Tuscany blog.com – "is your guide to Tuscany on the internet: a journey through this region where you can find a wealth of resources, history and traditions: tourism, culture, art, gastronomy, itineraries, events, and much more." – Multiple contributors – Location: ?
    • Tuscany Painting Studio Gallery/the tuscanartist – "Contemporary original oil and acrylic paintings of Tuscany and Italian cuisine art in downtown historic Florence by a small selection of local artists. We offer courier shipping with professionally made crates to assure that the original art work you have selected arrives safely to you. If you are adventurous you can join one of the various art workshops in Florence and Tuscany. Choose from plein air painting, art appreciation, printmaking, or photography all with professional artists." – ? – Location: Firenze (Florence)
  • OUTSIDE OF TUSCANY
    • Art and Barb Live in Italy! – Location: San Venanzo, Umbria
    • Countries Beginning with I – Deirdré Straughan’s excellent web site – words, pictures, and video about Italy, India, and the world – Location: Lecco, Lombardia (Lombardy)
    • cross-cultural moments – ".....a twitch, a deep gut-wrenching punch, a squirmy, queasy, lightheaded feeling that comes on when people and institutions act in ways that put you outside your cultural comfort zone. Join me as I explore my cultural moments in Italy. Then send me yours!" – Elizabeth – Location: Rome, Lazio
    • La Cucina – "... means "the kitchen" or simply "cooking". A compilation of easy, tasty recipes. Many are inspired by numerous trips to Italy and my Italian grandmother. Others are just plain good ol' American meals. All are guaranteed to be easy to prepare. The simplicity of flavors is more important than using too many ingredients and techniques which mask the flavors of the foods. Buon appetito!" – Valerie – Location: Ascoli Piceno, Marche
    • Drawing on Experience: an open sketchbook of life in Le Marche – Scott Henderson – Location: Calcinelli di Saltara (PU), Marche
    • foreign remarks – "Welcome to foreign remarks.com. This is the website for Rebecca Helm-Ropelato. I am an American free lance writer. I live in Italy with my husband, who is Italian. I moved here in 2001 from my longtime home in California. Recently, I have had articles published in the Los Angeles Times Magazine and the Christian Science Monitor, (featured here). Here on foreign remarks.com I have a blog in which I present opinions and impressions related to my experiences living in another country. I will add something new every week. Sometimes it will be brief, other times more in depth. I hope it will be enjoyable and at times, perhaps, informative." – by rebecca helm-ropelato – Location: Lazio region
    • Wandering Italy – "Living, eating, and enjoying Italy" – James Martin – Location: ?
BOOKS
EXPAT INFORMATION
MULTIMEDIA: AUDIO/PHOTOGRAPHS/VIDEO
NOT A MAP
  • 360° – "A new way to explore Tuscany" – Source: Italy Travel Guides Ltd
REAL ESTATE LINKSRENTALS
TUSCAN COOKING and LESSONS/COURSES
  • COOKING
    • Tuscan cooking – "Tuscan kitchen" – Source: Cookaround – "The Italian regional cookings" – In English, German, Italian, Spanish
    • Tuscan cooking, wines, and more – "Tuscany has everything from high mountains through rolling hills and sandy beaches, and therefore the list of ingredients the Tuscan cook has at his or her disposal is stunningly long. And then there are the wines..." – Source: Italian Cuisine section of About.com
  • LESSONS/COURSES
    • DIVINA CUCINA FIRENZE ITALIA – "Everyone should try being Italian... at least once a year"
    • Good Tastes of Tuscany – "Tuscan cooking courses in a rustic, authentic atmosphere should be widely available to any and all interested parties at affordable prices, regardless of cooking experience, knowledge of the region or proficiency in the Italian language."
    • Organic Tuscany – "offers cooking holidays in Italy which are “from farm to table”: taking you to see where the fresh, local organic food we buy is grown and using it to cook traditional Tuscan and Italian recipes: fresh pastas, hearty salads, the perfect risotto and delectable desserts."
    • Tuscany Cooking Max&Me – "Practical cookery courses at our home in the heart of the Florence hills for people who are passionate about culinary art, who want to rediscover age-old flavours and the typical products of Tuscany and Liguria"
    • Tuscan Women Cook – "Learn to cook Tuscan style from the source, the local Tuscan women. Using recipes and techniques passed down over the generations, these delightful women cook with what they find fresh each day at the market."
U.S. EMBASSY AND CONSULATES – IN ENGLISH, ITALIAN
WI-FI (Wireless Fidelity)
  • Wi-Fi Hotspot Directory: Italy – Source: JiWire – "helps you locate free and paid WiFi hotspot networks, secure your wireless Internet connections, and learn how to use Wi-Fi products and wireless broadband services."
MISCELLANEOUS
* = Blog entry has been updated.

The above links are current. If anyone has any suggestions for other sites, please feel free to post your comment and I'll update this blog entry. For your specific interest, please search the web for further information using Google .

Please note: I do NOT represent or endorse any of these links nor do I receive payment for listing them in my blog.

If you are looking for real estate or rental information, I would suggest that you look under the section labeled "MISCELLANEOUS" above or search the Internet. There are too many web sites to list individually.

What you will find above is information for individuals: living in the Toscana (Tuscany) region of Italy, spending some time in that region or planning to come to this region of Italy. There is a wealth of information on and about Toscana on the web. This blog entry is not intended to be all inclusive but a sampling of some of the wonders, joys and sights of the Regione Toscana.

I am sure there are more books, blogs and other information on Toscana (Tuscany) region of Italy. When I move to Toscana in mid-September, 2007, I will be updating these two blog entries as I discover and learn about them. More to follow....

That's it for Tuesday, 26 June 2007: martedì, 26 giugno 2007.

Ciao, Ben

Moving2Italy2 – #1 source of links About, For or On Italy for those individuals moving, traveling or already living in Italy.

Today’s quote is an Italian saying, author unknown.

"Meglio essere invidiati che compiatiti."
"Better to be envied than pitied."

Please read my wife's blog about our life in Italy:

Friends and Family in Italy

Going to Spain, read my new blog:

Info About, For or On Spain – a source of links About, For or On Spain for those individuals traveling or already living in Spain.

(LAST EDITED/UPDATED: 17 March 2009)
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