Living the dream is not always what it is cracked up to be. It takes grit and fortitude to stay on track and keep on searching. Nikki’s story of finding her own La Dolce Vita is a great tale of exploring, making changes and never giving up. These days Nikki lives in Puglia with her husband and two children and enjoys the wonderful life style in Puglia. Nikki runs her own Buying Property in Italy Business and continues to explore new ways of sharing her love of living in Italy.

The exciting news is that there is a wonderful opportunity for you to live your own La Dolce Vita and this episode is about making that dream real. Nikki Taylor is giving away a property in Puglia and all you have to do is enter the Competition. Nikki is also on a mission to create a Guinness World Record so join in on the fun and begin a new adventure in Puglia Italy…..

I am most delighted to share this conversation with Susan Van Allen about her updated 10th Anniversary Edition, “100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go”. Susan is a Screen and Travel Writer, and an American Treasure. Her many books on Italy give travellers the inside tips on the places one should visit that will create the most magical travel memories……

There are so many layers to this conversation with Cookbook Author and Photographer Paola Bacchia. Place, identity, home, migration, culture, food, tradition, displacement, loss, family and ultimately celebration. This is an Istrian story, an Australian story and an Italian story. This episode weaves the many layers of these themes with the love of food and the threads of family and memories at the centre of Paola’s cooking…..

We are not the first and we will not be the last. The magnetic forces of Italy are powerful luring us from the comfort of our own homes and countries to dream, to ponder, to move, to see and to experience a culture that shows us a beautiful way to live.

It is a sensual life that is deeply layered. Many of us would like a taste of it, a few weeks, a few months, perhaps a lifetime. Italy is a beacon, a radiant beauty that has many of us within its grasp…..