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The Girl. A Girl’s Tuscan Dream
1) The Girl has a Dream
2) Where is a Girl to Look?
3) The Effort behind the Dream
4) Will the Girl find the Dream this time?
5) The Girl has Choices to make
6) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly!
7) Getting the Details down!
8) Purchasing the Dream!
9) The Girl has a Secret
10) The Day the Dream comes true!
11) The Girl wakes up!
12) The Girl needs the Basics!
13) The Girl needs to be Connected!
14) The Girl needs Transportation!
15) The Girl needs Stuff!
16) The Girl needs a Handyman!
17) The Girl learns DIY!
18) The Local Discoveries
19) Managing the Cafe Life
20) The Girl searches for Food
21) The Girl Learns to Cook
22) The Girl needs a Drink!
23) The Girl needs to Celebrate!
24) A Girl needs some down time!
25) The Girl needs to learn some History!
26) The Girl May find Religion
27) The Girl has to keep fit!
28) The Girl has to remember it is her house!
29) The Girl finds Love along the way!
30) Future Dreams
Where is the place the Girl is speaking about?
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“The Girl!”
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This book is about how a forty-year dream landed me in one of the most unspoilt and beautiful areas of Tuscany. As I start writing I am sitting in my dream home looking out towards the Mediterranean Sea. The Tuscan sun is still strong at this hour, and the soft light reflecting on the hills makes the olive trees a vibrant grey green. The Love I found along the way is busy doing DIY projects. We will soon have an Aperol Spritz, some fresh basil, mozzarella and tomatoes from the garden. We will listen to the silence of the village. We will sleep well tonight and not awake until we hear the toll of the church bells or the late rising rooster. Not a sound will trouble us through the night, we may dream or not. What was a long dream for me is now a reality. How did I get here? Well, this is the tale of a Girl with a forty-year dream and a seven-year search to find her bliss. Are you ready to find your dream?
Can we make our dreams come true? Is it luck or is it a choice? I believe everyone can and should make at least one of their dreams come true. My dream was to find a place to to spend the next chapter of my life, in a manner completely different from the past thirty-plus years of working. As a woman of a certain age, much younger when the dream started, and 55 when the dream was realised, there were moments I thought it would remain an obsession in my head. Over the years the dream altered, got sidelined, wavered a lot, and even fell off the radar a few times. It became something I would only whisper to myself, or sometimes joke about with friends. I wonder if they ever believed me? Despite months and even years passing by, the dream was always there however, a slight hope, a small whisper, never too far from my thoughts.
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A little pause here to offer that throughout my search I visited so many wonderful places and saw so many properties. Here are a few more villages where you may find your dream;
Capalbio is a medieval village on a hill looking out to the Mediterranean Sea. There is a walkable wall with magnificent views of the sea and the houses in the village. Or if that is not your poison you can simply grab that cappuccino and people watch. Do not miss a visit to the "Tarot Garden" near the village of Capalbio, with its 22 huge monumental sculptures inspired by the tarots.
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