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Bilingual babies 21 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm
Do bilingual babies exist? Is it possible that a child can switch from one language to the other with such ease that they don't even realise they are doing it? In my opinion and in my experience the a...
Things work = strange... 15 Aug 2013 | 03:15 pm
We lived with my parents for 7 months and before that we lived with bel marito's parents straight after the accident until the move down under. So all in all it was a LONG time living with parents. Bu...
How...how...how? 12 Aug 2013 | 03:37 pm
Gosh, so many questions, so many curious people that I am just not sure where to start. One of my readers, Canedolia put things into perspective when she wrote "...Glad to see you posting again! I was...
Passport control 9 Aug 2013 | 08:58 am
You may recall that we left Italy in haste. It was snowing, we were rushed saying goodbye, passport control thought I was a disable woman kidnapping a baby...it was not your normal departure. We arri...
We are still here...just on the other side of the world 8 Aug 2013 | 08:19 am
And here we are. Bella bambina will be 1 year old in a few weeks which is always a bitter sweet reminder that 1 year ago almost none of us were here, but it is also a reminder that we are here. I am n...
Goodbye 18 Dec 2012 | 04:32 pm
The alarm was set for 6:20am. We were going to drive to Paola to get the super fast freccia argento train. It would only take 3 and a half hours to reach the centre of Rome. At about 5.30 we heard bel...
Another Italian hospital 2 Dec 2012 | 01:11 am
Italy is a topsy turvy place to live. Let me start by saying that if you are ever going to get sick in Calabria or get hit by a range rover when you are 35 weeks pregnant then you want to be near Cata...
Passports for babies...in Cosenza 26 Nov 2012 | 01:15 am
Last week we went to get bella bambina her Italian passport. She isn't Australian yet so needs to have an Italian passport to enter Australia (which reminds me I must get her an Australian tourist vis...
The countdown is on 17 Nov 2012 | 03:12 pm
This was meant to be our last summer in Italy. I mean to say it was our last summer in Italy since it's now autumn. If you read this blog every now and then you will recall that bel marito applied and...
Pain relief in Italy 21 Oct 2012 | 07:03 pm
Finally, after 50 days of being bedridden with nuts and bolts holding my broken bits in place, on the 10th of October I paid a visit to the horrid hospital and had my iron rods all removed. Bel bambin...
