Part-time Italian

A distracted American, an Abruzzo vacation home.
What could go wrong?

At Home in Fossacesia

Around Abruzzo

Around Italy

Nov 25
3 min

Hymn to Venice #1022

Venice doesn’t just make me happy; it makes me aware that I’m happy. I guess that's at least partly because Venice wakes up my senses....

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Nov 10
2 min

A Gallop Through Venice

I can never get enough of Venice, so made a run there before I left Italian soil in October. This time, I was staying at the hotel Ai...

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Oct 30
8 min

More Family Time in Fossacesia!

Well, I’m on a roll. I just had another stay in Italy with family members. This time, I was joined by my nephew, John, and his wife,...

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Jul 24
6 min

Table for Six, Per Favore!

This trip was a real departure for me. I’m accustomed to traveling to Italy alone, but this time I was flanked by a jaunty gaggle of...

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May 12
6 min

Robbed in Rome

I was robbed at Rome’s Tiburtina bus station last week. A Roma woman took my portfolio-style wallet with about $500 in cash, my passport,...

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About

I’m a New Yorker with one toe in Italy, having bought a small vacation home in Abruzzo 12 years ago. So I’m a visitor in a somewhat familiar land and a homeowner on pretty unfamiliar ground.

Part-time resident, part-time tourist, I’ve landed in Italy more times than I can count.

I’m no longer breathlessly besotted by the country; nor am I at all indifferent to its charms.

These are postcards of my experiences. I hope they’ll be of interest to other part-time Italians, however they be defined.

—Kathryn Casey

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