Chasing Happiness

Not many days ago we were out in Taranto and we had an idea, to search for a book to help Giannis with learning italian, a hard business, how is it possible that there are so many books meant to teach to foreing that don't include an international language like English, understandable by the many? It's absurd to think that someone that doesn't have not even a base can find it helpful, and is even more absurd to think that behind those that want to learn there's always a teacher ready to explain or native speakers able to teach, for example me, Maria, I do my best but I know I don't have enough skills. And so my question is why do publishers use this obsolete method for textbooks designed to learn a language? In 2019 everyone should be able to learn by themselves, taking their own times and maybe being comfortably at home with nobody around, so please, if someone of you is a book editor, think about it, for the love of knowledge, make something easy and underst...

  We are finally back and together! After so many months not writing on the blog and after many things going on in our life, we are now taking our next steps towards findind our happiness. We moved together to Italy on 17th of September after we spent few days in Greece to meet with Gianni's family, everything went fine and they seemed to approve us as a couple, so from now on we can start making plans about our wedding, but not before we settle properly in a place of our own. It's not that easy, what we noticed is that there's a big difference between our two countries and the modality to rent a place, here in Italy for example isn't easy to find rental apartments, people seem to prefer to sell, especially in small villages like the one Maria's family live in, and if you are so lucky to find one, the price to pay a month is almost like the one you would pay if you decide to make a mortgage, from 400 euros and up. In Greece instead things are different, you...