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Italy is an amazing country, and despite not being a huge country, geographically speaking it has every thing, amazing beaches, breath taking mountains, beautiful hills (i.e. Tuscany).

Many cities and small towns are so packed with history and art that if taken as a whole and placed in a museum people would pay to see them.

Of course I cannot talk about Italy and not mention how good and relatively inexpensive food is. And the reason why food is so good is that Italians are obsess about it, while we are having breakfast we are thinking what should we eat for lunch, and during lunch we often discuss with friends what we ate the night before and probably what we are going to eat for dinner.

While in England people have their local pub, Italians have their favorite Bar (Cafe), this is the Bar that makes the best cappuccino.
In London I have taken so many “Cafe Nero” and “Starbucks” that for me in Italy whichever Bar makes a great cappuccino.

So why I don’t want to go back and live in Italy ?
Well for me the following are the biggest problems: (more…)


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Few days ago my wife and I made the important decision of moving out of London.
In May this year a new era of our life will start in Tokyo.

I think I know why I want to go to Japan as apposed to stay in London or going back home to Italy but I want to put my reasons in writing as the process of writing will help formalize my thinking and if in the future, I happen to forget how I end up in Tokyo I can refer back to this pages.

I intend to write 3 posts loosely comparing the 3 countries I know best, focusing in each post on one country. I will start tomorrow with Italy the country where I lived for the first 22 years and 10 months of my life and the country that I travel to the most as my family and friends are there.