A Visit to Certosa: Pisa Charterhouse and the Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa
August 4, 2023It is the fourth summer in a row that I visit Pisa, Italy, together with my Italian partner. You can read about those travels in the previous posts. This one, for example, tells you about my very favorite place in Tuscany. This summer, we’re lucky enough to stay in Tuscany for more than a month. That means plenty of time to visit all the places we always wanted to see but somehow never managed to get to. One of them is a visit to Certosa, a former monastery including the Pisa Charterhouse or Certosa di Calci and the Natural History…
A Visit to the Pinocchio Park in Collodi
What could be a fun and unusual destination for a day trip in Tuscany? Having already visited some relatively hidden gems of Tuscany, we were looking for something completely new to do. That is how me and my partner came…
My Favourite Place in Tuscany
We are back in Tuscany, my partner’s home region! It’s been a year since we have been here and I’ve missed Tuscany so much. You can read about some hidden pearls of Tuscany discovered in our previous visits over here.…
Two Years in Tilburg
Pandemic Arrival It’s been exactly two years since I moved to the Netherlands, to Tilburg (I have written earlier about my move in this post). I arrived right into the middle of the beginning of the pandemic lockdown, but little…
Our Italian Road Trip
In this post, I will take you along our Italian road trip through three regions of Italy. Our summer in Italy was busy and filled with a lot of work and family responsibilities, but here, I want to share some…
Hidden Gems of Tuscany
I have been blessed to have the chance to spend a lot of time in Italy, thanks to my better half being Italian. If you are interested, you can look at my previous posts on for example the lovely cities…
Miracles of Pisa
Flashback to Summer The sky in the Netherlands is covered in a blanket of clouds, and even if the temperature is up to a whooping 10 degrees (an unprecedent occurrence in February, to a Finn), I find myself missing summer…
The Italian Pearl of Switzerland: Lugano
The year of 2020 has brought all travelling to a halt, but some trips cannot be avoided. One of them for us has been the other one of us taking a course to attain Swiss citizenship. This quest brought us…
Hits and Misses of Bologna
It so happened that life took us once again to Bologna. If I ever imagined there is an Italian city that I will be visiting regularly, I never imagined that city would be Bologna (nor that I would visit it…
Biggest Culture Shocks so far as an Expatriate in the Netherlands
Today, I celebrate having lived half a year in the Netherlands (read more about the move here). It probably would have been an adventure anyway, but with the Covid-19 in the game, it has been weirder than I would have…
Moving abroad for Love and How I Did It in Covid-times
We had already agreed that I would move from Finland to live with my partner in the Netherlands, as news of a mysterious virus started to appear in the media in January 2020. As probably most other people, we didn’t…
