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Newsletter: September 2026 – Time with Family, and Authentic Sicilian Experiences
“Il tempo passato con famiglia e amici non è mai tempo perso.” Time spent with family & friends is never time wasted. As Courtney and I left Vancouver Island, we made a stop in Ontario to have some much-needed family time before heading back across the Atlantic to Sicily. I…
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Newsletter: August 2026 – As One Season Ends, Another One Begins
More kindness, more laughter, more looking up at the stars. More long walks, more deep conversations, more art. More music, more delight. More getting lost in a beautiful moment. More ordinary, everyday magic. – Poem found on Gabriola Island by Carol Cares For the past three years, we’ve been travelling…
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Newsletter: July 2026 – Seeing Canada with Fresh Eyes
After three years, thirteen countries, four continents, countless cafés, and more Airbnbs than I can remember, I wondered one thing as our plane touched down in Victoria: Would Canada still feel like an adventure? How do you return after wandering medieval Sicilian villages, admiring the Big Five up close…
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Newsletter: June 2026 – Authentic Experiences from Sicily, Ireland and Canada
The month of June gave us another reminder of why we’ve fallen so deeply in love with Sicily. My niece came to visit from Poland, eager to experience the Sicily we’d spent months describing to her. Not the version found in glossy travel brochures, but the real Sicily—the one hidden…
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Newsletter: May 2026 – The Gift of Time with Family and Friends
Every once in a while, I find that life quietly reminds me what matters most. Not through grand achievements or perfectly planned moments, but through ordinary conversations around kitchen tables, old stories repeated for the hundredth time, long friendships that somehow survived decades, and realizing that the people who have…
