Welshcakes Limoncello
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My blogs
Blogpower- Defending the Blogosphere
Sicily Scene
Original Nourishing Obscurity
English International School, Modica
Blogs I follow
"Musing's with Girl on the Run"
*An English Travel Writer*
A View from Carmine Superiore
A Welshie in Italy
Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe
Alexicon: A Kitty Kat’s Life wiff hiz Hoomin
All and Sundry
Amid the Olive Trees
AMIGA DA MODA
Angus Dei politico
Anne in Oxfordshire
arttrav.com
Bell'Avventura
Best Blog Widgets For Free
Bocca di strada
BuildingBlox
Calling England
Cantora Shirley Kaiser
Carmen's Chronicles
Cherie's Place
Child Free Writer In the City
Claire Thomson Carbonaro
DayDreamnWorld
Deepest, Darkest Lomellina
Della Della
desiderio di luce
Down at heel
DRAGON DAYS
Felis catus and the City
Follow the Wabbit
Freelance Writer Blog
GardenCuizine
Gledwood Vol 2 (Main blog)
Gratitude Cafe
Gratitude Cafe
Here Be Dragons
In 1 Word
It was always simple
JS-Kit
Kathleen Gwinnett"s Blog
Key West Gumbo Italy Poems
La Mia Italia...Gallese
Let there be light on my parade
LIFE IN THE EXPAT LANE
Life on the Edge
Linguanaut.co.uk - Damon Lord's Irregular Blog
lost in sicilia
Man in a Shed
Midlife Jobhunter
Mille Fiori Favoriti
Miss B. in California
more or less
Mountaingirls Musings
Mutleythedogsdayout
My Paesano
My Time, In Calabria
News from Italy
Nick's Bytes
Nobody Important
Noclue
Notes from Memphis
nunyaa
On my way 2 work & Other Stuff
One Mum, Two Girls and a Chauffeur
Peace Globe Gallery
Phidelm
Picture Italy
poems from cuby
Politeia
Portrait of Words
Posh Totty
Prophecy of the Medallion
Rachel Cotterill
Ragnasuns blog pages
Random Thoughts of Life
Random Thoughts Of Life
RecreationalArt
Roman Candle tours
Romancing Italy
Scott Thoughts
Secret forest
Simply Eli
sixtyfivewhatnow
So Sweet Designs
socalgalopenwallet
SUN SEEKER
THE CROWN BLOGSPOT
The Girl from the Moon
The mind of a desk bound wanderer
The Pedalogue
The Poor Mouth
The Priest's Housekeeper
The Raft Journal
The Wounded Warrior
This Heavenly Life -- Messy, Loud, Always Worthwhile
Trubes
Valleys Mam
Vintage Maid
When I Was Your Age--A memoir
~The World Through Holly Berry's Eyes~
About me
Gender
Female
Astrological Sign
Aquarius
Industry
Education
Occupation
language teacher, translator, interpreter
Location
Modica
,
Sicily
,
Italy
Introduction
I'm a sort-of retired language teacher from Cardiff, Wales, UK, now trying to make a new life in Sicily. I'm not growing vines, making olive oil or restoring a palace stone by stone!
Interests
Reading,
BBC radio 4,
my dog,
cooking,
café culture,
politics,
mixing a good gin and tonic.
Favorite Movies
Anything Can Happen,
Vera Drake,
Sideways,
Les Misérables de Claude Lelouch,
Malena,
Belle Époque,
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg,
Easter Parade,
Calendar Girls.
Favorite Music
Al Bano,
Gino Paoli,
Andrea Bocelli,
Il Divo,
Dusty Springfield,
Shirley Bassey,
Stacey Kent,
Kate & Anna Mcgarrigle,
Dean Martin,
Frank Sinatra,
Waylon Jennings,
Hayley Westenra,
Chopin,
Mozart,
Verdi,
Vivaldi.
Favorite Books
Il Gattopardo by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa,
Madame de Stael by Maria Fairweather,
On Persephone's Island by Mary Taylor Simeti,
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky,
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith,
Pompeii by Robert Harris,
The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard,
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott,
Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott,
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink,
everything by Simone de Beauvoir.