World According to Pete

June 27, 2025

Last Full Day in Italy

(more endless notes from March/April 2025) I know I advertised this post as being the last day… but it actually begins the night before 😂 Big moment coming up: our final dinner in Italy! We had asked the hotel to book us somewhere special… but after hiking around all day, we changed our minds: we… Continue reading

Food, Hotels, Italia, Italy, Roma, Rome, Travel

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June 26, 2025

Random Roma

We only just arrived this afternoon from Todi, but it’s dinnertime so we head out. Still desperate for something different, we googled “Indian near me” and found a pretty legit place. So legit in fact that they don’t ask you your preferred spice level, you will just eat it as it is served to you! Continue reading

Food, Hotels, Italia, Italy, Roma, Rome, Travel

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June 25, 2025

Good-bye Dear Todi

Wow how long can I drag out the end lol well in my defense, it is a bit emotional, the end of this entire month here. Will we choose to ever do such a thing again? Spoiler alert: probably 😀 We had one final dinner left in Todi, which we chose to spend in the… Continue reading

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June 24, 2025

OMG Our Very Last Lunch in Todi 🙁

(events from March 2025) Wow a month’s worth of living, freezing, getting rained upon, and eating out has come to a close. So now we face a final choice: where to have lunch on this final day lol Sam saw something on the specials menu which mentioned liver, and figured I would probably really like… Continue reading

Food, Italia, Italy, Todi, Travel, Umbria

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June 20, 2025

Almost Done With Todi

(notes from March 2025) Kinda crazy that we’re almost done with Todi! So was it successful, the whole working-abroad-for-a-month thing? Well yes and no… yes in that we could both do our jobs pretty much every day. No, in a couple of ways: when we first planned this, Sam had a light workweek of around… Continue reading

Food, Italia, Italy, Todi, Travel, Umbria

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June 20, 2025

Another Crazy Meal in Todi

(notes from March 2025) We are still working full-time throughout the week, so pretty much the only interesting thing I can post about are our meals… Sam was up almost till 2:00AM last night with one of her teams. Today as usual we slept in late: stocks don’t open til 2:30 so I’ve got plenty… Continue reading

Food, Italia, Italy, Todi, Travel, Umbria

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June 17, 2025

The Swearing Post

(March 2025) So yeah, this post might be a little PG-13 It’s been a long week and so we finally returned to the restaurant Sam desecrated a week ago and refused to ever return to (What happened?!?Sigh… remember the place Pane e Vino where the foul fowl covered in yuck was served? Sam’s barf trigger… Continue reading

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June 17, 2025

Roman Cisterns

(Even more notes from March 2025) And then it was time to finally check out the Roman Cisterns! Todi is a hilltop town, so the Romans couldn’t exactly run aqueducts up to it; instead they built huge cisterns in which to store rainwater. The main piazza is built on top of these, and the locals… Continue reading

Food, Italia, Italy, Todi, Travel, Umbria

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June 17, 2025

Take-Out Pizza!

(notes from March 2025) When we planned this trip, Sam was working for about twenty hours a week–easy! But by the time we got here, it was more like fifty, and her schedule typically dragged far into the night. Tonight we needed dinner, but she couldn’t get away to a restaurant and we were out… Continue reading

Bars, Food, Italia, Italy, Todi, Travel, Umbria

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June 13, 2025

Still Cold in Todi

(More notes from March 2025) To make a long story short, we are freaking freezing!! It’s always in the 40’s here, howling winds, rain/sleet; we just didn’t pack for this!! And today I had a crap day at the stocks—you might ask why am I stressing about work stuff here? Well, that was kind of… Continue reading

Food, Italia, Italy, Steak restaurants, Todi, Travel, Umbria

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