But the words from the coast guard were:

[bellal khan]

The children changed schools and had to make new friends in a remote village of 5,000 souls.

A sacrifice, one of the first, in sight of our dream.

And so the first year passes , the premeditated one.

Then the second one too , and suddenly we find ourselves at the end of the third .

Time was passing, inexorably, the children were growing up and it was clear that the money would not be enough.


“You only live once.”

Now or never, the time had come to play it all, to get what we really wanted.

So we finally sold the house in Milan.

From Milan to a Life Among the Waves on Shibumi: The Story of How We Taught Our 3 Children That Dreams Can Come True 1

With the money we earned we finally fixed, equipped and denmark telegram data prepared our boat , Shibumi .

It is a boat from the 80s that we purchased in 2016. It had been sitting in a shipyard in Greece for years and was just waiting for us.

Not for a vacation this time, but to be our home. We had made it and now we would never go back .

Before lifting the anchor, however, there was still much to do.

And, most importantly, nothing could have prepared us for what was to come…

Doubt in the head, certainty in the heart: the journey begins
In 2020 , behind schedule, we brought Shibumi from Greece to a construction site on the Magra river in Liguria, dodging the pandemic and the slowdowns caused by it.

My husband redid all the electrical and plumbing. We installed: solar panels and a watermaker, to be sustainable and to be energy independent .