Part-time Italian

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

At Home in Fossacesia

Around Abruzzo

Around Italy

Nov 1111 min read

The modern stone-age family heads to the heel

Our latest adventure on Italian soil took my sisters Sheila and Rosie and me to Puglia, the beautiful and rocky region in the heel of the...

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Jul 74 min read

Kitchen Cousins (+ new expat family recipes)

While I was hanging with the family in Tuscany, a kitchen renovation was underway back at the house in Fossacesia. That's where I headed...

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Jun 76 min read

Under the Tuscan Clouds

This May, nine of us descended upon, or should I say ascended to, or should I say stampeded into a lovely villa in the hilly Tuscan...

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May 46 min read

Venice: Bring On the Off-Season

I've put on my thinking mask because I'm having second thoughts about Venice. Is it that the views have lost their magic? That I'm angry...

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Mar 258 min read

Le Bestie di Trieste

Okay, I'll admit it. That title is trying hard to be clever across two languages: In the Italian, "the beasts of Trieste" is a reference...

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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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