Italy
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Our Flat in Todi
(notes from March 2025) We rented a place for the entire month of March in a pretty prime location (albeit in a very small out-of-the-way town haha). Our flat was tiny (maybe 700 square feet give or take?), but it had everything you could ask: the two of us successfully worked here for a full… Continue reading
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Todi
Todi is an ancient tiny hilltop town in the center of Italy, perhaps 2500 years old. It’s in the county of Umbria, apparently one of the only land-locked counties in the entire country lol So why choose Todi? Well, it was slightly at random… many years earlier, we had rented a villa in the countryside… Continue reading
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Final Day in Rome, Then Off to Todi!
We got up kind of late, sort of on purpose: Sam’s clients are mostly on US time, so there’s little point in us adjusting to local European time if she’s gonna be on calls till 1:00AM every night–better for us to sleep in and try to stay more on a US-based schedule. That works better… Continue reading
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First Day in Rome
Jet-lag is killing us, day two is always the absolute worst! But we did get out for meals at least, and those were interesting. It’s been a very long time since we were served something we didn’t know how to eat 😂 It’s artichoke season here in Italy and so we ordered the special appetizer… Continue reading
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First Night in Rome
We woke up this morning in Cincinnati, now we are looking for dinner in Rome! Travel days are just so bizarre! They are wonderful, but still so tiring and so strange… anyway, we headed out for a late dinner somewhere. For whatever reason, I have always been anti-Rome. Last time we visited (albeit at least… Continue reading
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Back to Italy for Five Weeks
So it’s back to Italy to redo our previous experiment: can we actually work from anywhere? Last fall we bopped around to a million places (which was totally fun!) but we never fell into a routine: hard to work when you are moving every few days! The work-abroad allure is easy to understand: we both… Continue reading
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Good-bye Italy!
We had a fun final day but it was a sort of an unsettling “travel day” where we had to pack up first thing in the morning and leave our long-time comfortable Airbnb to travel across town to the new posh hotel for all of one night lol Now it’s morning, we’re gonna make one… Continue reading
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Last Day in Napoli
Problems of being a European male: you wake up, first you have to decide which Adidas track pants to wear! And by “which” I mean which particular shade of black amongst the dozens you own. Then you have to choose the right Adidas shirt! Red would be bold, but black is safer. And it will… Continue reading
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And More Napoli 😀
Today is our last day in the great/sucky AirBnB lol it’s great for what it is, but the location really sucks unless you want to spend all your time inside and never go out. The next morning, we were all packed and ready, we’d arranged for a driver to pick us up at ten and… Continue reading
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More Days in Napoli
So we obviously read up on stuff, especially about Sicilia, and it turns out they eat horses there. When you hear that, it’s something you don’t forget easily!! So whenever I see signs like above, featuring “Mare” in large letters, my first thought is “Horse restaurant!!” But obviously—albeit not to me—”Mare” in Italian means “of… Continue reading