All (All ?) we were looking for was a property that’d be our new permanent home in Italy and have the space and scope for our plan to open a small-scale villa rental business providing holidays for two.

Looking back, I wonder why we got as wound-up as we did about how the cats would react to the 1400-mile trek in the back of the car from Somerset to our new home in the hamlet of Ascigno in Abruzzo…