Ciao Bella : Six Take Italy is radio and television personality Kate Langbroek's experience of moving her family of four children to Italy to live for a year. One year in, she and her husband decided to extend their time, and were inadvertantly caught up in the wave of COVID-19 that hit Italy. But the book is not about the pandemic. It's about the adventure and challenges of living in another country and culture, and seizing the day to have new experiences and spend more time with family. Told with Kate's trademark humour, Ciao Bella is 'a love letter to Italy and family'.
While you are Waiting to read Ciao Bella, you might enjoy these other tales of living and travelling in other countries.
A Chip Shop in Poznan: My Unlikely Year in Poland by Ben Aitken
Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop. Fewer still come back wanting to be a Member of the European Parliament. In 2016 Ben Aitken moved to Poland while he still could. It wasn't love that took him but curiosity: he wanted to know what the Poles in the UK had left behind. He flew to a place had never heard of and then accepted a job in a chip shop on the minimum wage. When he wasn't peeling potatoes he was on the road scratching the country's surface: he milked cows with a Eurosceptic farmer; missed the bus to Auschwitz; spent Christmas with complete strangers and went to Gdask to learn how communism got the chop. By the years end he had a better sense of what the Poles had turned their backs on - southern mountains, northern beaches, dumplings. This is a candid, funny and offbeat tale of a year as an unlikely immigrant.
My Twenty-five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle
From the moment twenty-five years ago when Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here Mayle pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of their adopted Provence-the charming and indelible parade of village life, the sheer beauty, the ancient history. He celebrates the café as an idea and lists some of his favorites; identifies his favorite villages, restaurants, and open-air markets; and recounts his most memorable meals. With his signature warmth, wit, and humor, Peter Mayle was a one-of-a-kind guide to Provence, and in his final book he has crafted a lasting love letter to his adopted home.
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare and a Scottish Adventure like no Other by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish
From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of Outlander Sam and Graham on a road trip with a difference, as two Scotsmen explore a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare. Unlikely friends Sam and Graham begin their journey in the heart of Scotland at Glencoe - the site of a great massacre and major clan feud - and travel from there all the way to Inverness and Culloden battlefield, where along the way they experience adventure and a cast of highland characters. In this story of friendship, finding themselves, and whisky, they discover the complexity, rich history and culture of their native country.
The Meaning of Rice and other Tales from the Belly of Japan by Michael Booth
In this often hilarious yet deeply researched book, food and travel writer Michael Booth and his family embark on an epic journey the length of Japan to explore its dazzling food culture. Often venturing far off the beaten track, the author and his family discover intriguing future food trends and meet a fascinating cast of food heroes, from a couple lavishing love on rotten fish, to a chef who literally sacrificed a limb in pursuit of the ultimate bowl of ramen, and a farmer who has dedicated his life to growing the finest rice in the world... in the shadow of Fukushima. They dine in the greatest restaurant in the world, meet the world champion of cakes, and encounter wild bears.
Alice to Prague: the Charming True Story of an Outback Girl who Finds Adventure - and Love - on the Other Side of the World by Tanya Heaslip
With a battered copy of Let's Go Europe stuffed in her backpack, Tanya Heaslip left her safe life as a lawyer in outback Australia and travelled to the post-communist Czech Republic. Dismissing concerns from family and friends that her safety and career were at risk, she arrived with no teaching experience whatsoever, to work at a high school in a town she'd never heard of, where the winters are frigid and plunge to sub-zero temperatures. During her childhood on an isolated cattle station in Central Australia, Tanya had always dreamt of adventure and romance in Europe but the Czech Republic was not the stuff of her dreams. On arrival, however, she falls headlong into misadventures that change her life forever. This land of castles, history and culture opened up to her and she to it.
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