The olive groves, fields and woods around us are home to a small number of cats and back in June, one of these decided that the shrubs outside our kitchen window would be the ideal spot to raise her new litter of three kittens.

(That’s how the story started. Click the main headline title above to find out what happened next…)

We have a new addition to our life in Abruzzo. A little black rescue kitten we’ve called Nemo who arrived on Friday.

Nemo’s about 12 weeks old and hasn’t really had much of a life so far…

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It’s hugely encouraging that every week more people are reading the Villasfor2 ‘About Abruzzo’ blog which I started writing about a month after our arrival in Italy in early October 07.

I know from your mails that you regard me and Pauline as a mix of brave, crazy, misguided and/or visionary, but the simple fact is that we wanted somewhere new to live and to run the kind of small, low-key, laid-back villa rental place that we were never quite able to find ourselves…

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