English Expats In Sicily, Italy
If you are looking to connect with English expats in Sicily, Italy, then this page brings together all the latest expat blogs Sicily written by English bloggers, any interviews, articles and news items we have here at ExpatsBlog.com.
Latest Blogs by English Expats Living in Italy
Driving Like a Maniac
DLaM is written by Kate Bailward - aka Katja. It is mainly made up of stories and observations of life in southern Italy, and is updated once a week, on Mondays.
Latest Expat Interviews/ Articles
American Expat Living in Italy - Interview with Alexa
Alexa is an American expat living and working in Bologna, Italy. After graduating from college and getting her TEFL certification, she moved abroad to teach English and learn Italian. She currently...
American Expat Living in Italy - Interview with Sophie
Sophie moved to Italy in the fall of 2011 when her professional-hockey-player-husband signed a contract with a team in Cortina d'Ampezzo, located in the beautiful Dolomites. Ever since, Sophie and...
Canadian Expat Living in Italy - Interview with Jasmine
Jasmine grew up a second-generation Canadian on the Western part of Canada in Edmonton, Alberta. She is a city girl with a love of country music. A true romantic, she is an avid cook and wine...
British Expat Living in Italy - Interview with Sue
Sue moved to Le Marche in Italy from London in the UK in May 2013 after falling in love with the country during a holiday. Sue has a passion for the new and exciting and has thrown herself into her...
Australian Expat Living in Italy - Interview with Cherise Vecchio
Cherise is an Australian travel and lifestyle writer originally from Brisbane. Coming from an Italian family, from a young age, she wanted to move to Italy to learn Italian. After studying public...
British Expat Living in Italy - Interview with Lucy
With a hearty appetite for food, travel and culture, Lucy is a student documenting her Erasmus year in Milan where she currently lives with her boyfriend "Magro". Whilst most of her blog posts...
American Expat Living in Italy - Interview with Scott
Scott Bergstein and Jessica Coup walked away from their lives in corporate America to grow olives in Puglia, the "heel of the boot" that is the Italian peninsula, and to radically change their...
American Expat Living in Italy, Interview with Sarah
Sarah Dowling is a Southern American gal living in Bologna, Italy. She’s an English teacher and Communication Science student at the University of Bologna. In her free time, she enjoys attempting...
Canadian Expat Living in Italy - Interview with Angela
Angela thought she was only going to live in Italy for a few months to learn Italian, 6 years later and she is raising a feisty red-headed toddler and working from home for a luxury belt brand based...
Expat Interview With Hayley, Canadian Expat In Italy
Hayley never could handle change well. So when the opportunity to leave Canada and move to Italy presented itself - she jumped at it. Backwards. Now six years later, Hayley is livin' la bella vita,...
Expat Interview With Brandi - US expat on Work Visa in Florence, Italy
Brandi Scarpelli is a Cali girl living in an Italian world! She is a just turned 30 year old who picked up and moved to Italy with her adorable husband Brandon Scarpelli. They had a dream and made it...
Australian Expat Living in Italy - Interview With Elisa
Elisa Scarton Detti is an Australian journalist who followed love to the Maremma - a part of Tuscany that's off-the-beaten tourist track, but all the more beautiful for it. Six years later, she...
How to Drive Like an Italian - after you've passed your Italian Driving Test!
Local Expert Series: How to Drive like an Italian by Catherine McNamara Driving in Italy will sharpen your wits. If you suffer from high blood pressure you should be careful. If you don't, make...
The Character of Italians and Their Politics
Local Expert Series: The Character of Italians and Their Politics by Rick “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed…BUT they produced...
US Expat in Italy - Don't get burnt by the Tuscan sun!
Francesca Maggi first came to Italy at the tender age of 4 months. A return visit at age 6 sealed her fate as she endured the agony and enjoyed the ecstasy of this country of contradictions. She...
Navigating Umbrian Schools, One Step at a Time
Local Expert Series: International Schools in Italy by Michelle Damiani My children have been attending public school in Spello, Italy for four months, and there is much I am still figuring out....
American Expat in Rome - Interview With Rick Zullo
Rick Zullo is an American expat living in the Caput Mundi. A few years ago he came to Italy on an extended vacation (we could call it a “sabbatical” just to make it sound impressive, but let’s...
From Los Angeles to Venice - Expat Interview With Marie
Marie Ohanesian Nardin moved to Venice, Italy from Los Angeles, California just over 25 years ago after a vacation set her on the same small canal as the man of her dreams: a Venetian gondolier. A...
American Expat in Italy - Expat Interview With Michelle
Michelle Damiani is a clinical psychologist specializing in children and families. Though her practice and her family and remodeling their 100 year old Victorian home were fulfilling, Michelle always...
From USA to Italy - Expat Interview With Michelle Fabio
MIchelle Fabio is an attorney-turned-freelance writer and editor. Since 2003, Michelle has lived in her family's ancestral village in Calabria, where she fell in love with a local named Paolo and now...
Australian Expat Living In Italy - Interview With Catherine
Catherine McNamara studied graphic design and modern African history before running off to Paris to become a writer. She worked in an embassy in Mogadishu before the war, has translated welding...
Thai Expat In Italy - Expat Interview With Mee
Since a very young age, Mee had always been a fancier of European languages and culture. Her dream was to travel through Europe, and so she studied English, French and Italian. After her graduation,...
Expat Interview With Amy - British Expat In Italy
Two years ago Amy Jones, a Brit in her mid-twenties, decided that life in the UK wasn't really what she wanted. After studying languages at university and then temporarily satisfying her wanderlust...
Expat Interview With Georgette - American Expat In Italy
Georgette Jupe aka 'Girl in Florence' is a twenty-something curious American girl living in the land of pasta and dante, (Florence Italy) since 2007. Life to this girl means freelance gigs and too...
Expat Interview With Kate Bailward - British Expat In Sicily
Kate Bailward is a cat-loving, trifle-hating Englishwoman living in Sicily. In 2009 she came to Italy for a nine-month teaching contract. Now at the beginning of her fourth year here, she has given...
Latest News Relating to Italy or England
Brit would-be expats urged to tread carefully on property purchase
European properties are now in high demand by British buyers hoping to become expats before Brexit hits the already damaged UK economy. According to online property agents, searches for both...- Expat businesses in Spain furious over new UK self-isolation law
British expats, business travellers and holidaymakers are praising Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary for defying the government’s self-isolation ruling. After the shock-horror of the UK... - Locals and expats in Venice rejecting a return to mass tourism
Expats and locals in Venice are hoping the city doesn’t revert to wall-to-wall tourism. Along with other world favourite tourism destinations, the historic Italian city of Venice is almost... - Expat English teaches in Seoul up in arms over visa changes
Expat teachers in South Korea are now facing tough new visa restrictions. As if dealing with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic wasn’t enough, South Korea’s government has just... - Expats in Prague love the city’s varied international food stores
Expats living and working in Prague may be forbidden to travel but can still buy food favourites from across the world. Travel bans and lockdowns have become the norm for expat professionals...
