Katja Meier was born in Switzerland and has lived in Italy for nearly two decades. Trained as an actress, she worked as an olive picker, wedding planner and life coach before taking on a Tuscan refugee home. She lives with her Italian partner and their two children next to an olive grove in a little known valley in southern Tuscany.
This is an excerpt from Katja Meier’s just published book Across the Big Blue Sea: Good Intentions and Hard Lessons in an Italian Refugee Home. Meet the author at Todo ...