Stories and tales from people who have decided

to leave their country to live

and work in Central & South Europe

In 2008 Stef and Nico (both male and happily married, to each other fortunately) made the big leap forwards and move to Italy. Permanently! They had no choice, as they had sold their house in The Netherlands to buy the Italian one. But they were also eager to start a new life, encounter new possibil...

On August 16th 2005 our plane touched down at Madeira International Airport and our new life on a volcanic rock situated in the North Atlantic began. Madeira is situated six hundred kilometres from North Africa and one thousand kilometres from mainland Portugal. It is not big, stretching to sixty ki...

From Italy to India via Portugal This is the title of the interview we had with Donata Panciera, one of the best known ice-cream “gurus” in Italy and beyond, later published in the 2005 “Gelatiere Italiano,” a journal for the ice-cream business. We have been residents in Alga...

Leaving Italy is a question of mentality, feeling and culture. You need a love of life, a desire to explore other realities, to compare youself with others and to put yourself to the test. To paraphrase the lyrics of the band Elio e le Storie Tese, all you need to do is remove that dark and menacing...

From Seattle to Verona (Italy)Verona, September 2009. Italy was to be an intermediary step between two places. I’d been living in Budapest for five years and felt like it was time to head home to Seattle. I felt unsure about uprooting myself from Budapest and leaving Europe behind. Once I&rsqu...