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How it all started !

Posted by sicilianG | 1st June 2008

The journey.

In the summer last year I came to Sicily for the first time with my girl friend for a two week holiday. Little did I realize that it was to be the start of something so fantastic that it would see me giving up my job in the UK, selling the car, put the house on the market and sell unwanted possessions to raise the money to come to Sicily, set up a new home and then start a new business to advertise the great holiday rental properties in Sicily and also Sicily itself as a great tourist destination.

Family and friends were supportive if not a little surprised but the date soon came when I handed over the reins of my construction site manager’s job to one of my colleagues and then spent the next two weeks preparing to leave. Deborah my partner had worked in Sicily for the last 5 years but had worked in the UK that summer so also had possessions to pack. Some possession were put in storage to ship later but most were boxed up and collected by a freight company to trav

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