A month of travel – germany, italy & austria

So, we just came home from a trip to Germany, Austria and Italy and by just we mean – it’s been three weeks already. It wasn’t a glamorous vacation, it wasn’t a vacation, but somehow it was exactly what we needed.

Because before we left, we were stressed about work and about AI taking over and everything sucking so bad and about so many things going on in the world. As much as we'd like to pretend that those things don’t touch us, apparently they do and we're not above them.

Although the time traveling wasn’t what we expected, the rolling hills of Tuscany weren’t rolling at all, we didn’t have time to work, use social media or think about the AI and its hallucinations that everyone seems to love.

And after a month of doing something we hadn’t done in probably 5-6 years – which was living offline, we feel like we can see clearly now (the rain is gone).

We also see how irrelevant most worries we have in everyday life are and that the online world is pretty manufactured. It has nothing to do with the real world, with our life. This last month made us even more aware of how life is moving, and when you don’t live it, when you’re concerned with irrelevant things, you stop noticing what’s important and it passes you by.

It doesn’t care about your brilliant plans, solid routines, your genius comments and posts on social media, or how stressed and tired you are or your work emergencies. It just keeps on moving. And when you’re not right there to live it, while it’s there, not solid or fair or beautiful, you miss it.

In real life now, we now have a ton of zucchini, cucumbers and fava beans in the garden, so there will be some recipes using those. We will try to not miss the moment. Unlike in the store, in nature, certain plants grow only during set periods of time and now’s the time for zucchini and fava beans.

Also, we want to find a new hobby that’s not boring and online. Something with nature and sports. Maybe music. We also want to learn something new, a skill, but not online. We're also starting a new 21-day challenge tomorrow, hope we can get back into a good routine. We’ll see. That’s our little update.