I followed
my heart
across the sea FITTING INTO A NEW COUNTRY ISN’T EASY, YET I CREATED MY DREAM LIFE IN ITALY!
M
y love affair with Italy began at age 21, on my first trip to Florence, while I was living in London. I was drawn in by this beautiful city and everything about it. It was a far cry from my home town of Perth, Australia and a place I had always dreamed about visiting but never thought it would ever happen. Fast forward to 2013, where I was living in Sydney and working in a very stressful corporate banking environment which took its toll on my health. I had reached my enough is enough moment and decided I
needed to change my life, and I was ready to meet my soul mate. I decided that my destiny wasn’t set for staying in Australia living a life that wasn’t aligned with me and out of nowhere I decided that it was time to plan my exit strategy, but where to? Italy was my obvious choice. After living in London for twelve years, I had a UK passport, so the transition was super easy from that part. I arrived in Italy in December 2014 and was convinced I had made the right decision to move. What I never
took into consideration, though, was how hard it could be to learn a new language, culture, way of life and different way of thinking. It hasn’t been easy, I tell you. Italy is a country famous for its bureaucracy, chaos and disorganization. A polar opposite from what I was used to in Australia and the UK. I arrived here with a passion and determination to create the life I had imagined for myself—a life where I could explore and marvel at the wonder that this beautiful country has to offer. I was living in the far north of Italy in a town called Bolzano, on the border of Austria. A stunningly beautiful town but it felt too “German” for me, and I missed the beach, so I moved down to the far south to Puglia in 2017. Not long after I had moved to a little seaside town called Monopoli,
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