How it all began...

It all started in the summer of 1998. We had only known each other for a year when we got married and two days after the wedding my brand new Husband got a job offer in Italy. We were madly in love and thought that we ought to try it out before we have children – three or four – and settle down in Sweden and live a typical Swedish life, whatever that is. Besides, Italy is the country of romance and therefore the perfect place for newly weds. Ah how we ate pizza and pasta! This was before all the GI dieting, when people considered pasta as ”slimming” food. We drank wine, ate Italian gelato, enjoyed life and gained weight. We have lost those extra kilos now, but that is another story.

Now, two daughters and five countries later, we are finally settling down or at least, we’ll try to settle down and see how we feel about NOT moving every three to five years. The odds of us being happy and not wanting to move are in our favor: we’re living in Australia. This is the story of our life Down Under and probably stories from the other countries we have lived in as well. Happy reading!