Umbria
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An Angry Nonna
For a guy trying to do a photo blog, this is pretty embarrassing: I have hardly any pictures to back any of this up! I guess if I’d known how epic this day would be, I’d have the whole thing on video 😀 But by now in Todi we had fallen into a rhythm, we’d… Continue reading
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Couple of New Restaurants
(notes from March 2025) There was an intriguing-looking restaurant kind of across the street from Ristorante Scalette called the Osteria Valle. The menu looked good but we could never figure out if and when it was open. The few times we saw people inside, we couldn’t figure out how to enter! We had actually circled… Continue reading
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More of Todi
(notes from March 2025) Yup, that’s life in the big city!! Continue reading
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We Visited the Todi Duomo
Then it was back to the flat for our work day. As luck would have it, the stock markets are melting down at the moment so I’m sort of in a “batten down the hatches” mode. And speaking of luck… I completely tested out all my equipment in Rome, everything was all well and good—but… Continue reading
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Second Full Day in Todi
(notes from March 2025) By the time we were awake enough to leave the flat, it was time for lunch–remember we’re trying to keep our timezone closer to the US than to Italy, to make Sam’s meetings easier. If we can sleep in to 11:00AM or so, it makes Zoom calls after midnight a lot… Continue reading
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First Meals in Todi
(notes from March 2025) We found this corner charcuterie place with a very gregarious proprietor, and Sam talked him into making us a quick tray of samplers for lunch! He was the third generation running this shop, and was pretty proud of that (as he should be!). We had a fun lunch in this dude’s… Continue reading
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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