Hey everyone, welcome back! Today, we’re diving into our journey of buying a house in Italy. Marlee season is a wonderful second life we are sharing. There are many things that make this season so special. Join us as we travel through our MarLee season. Share in our adventures miss steps and successes. Let’s get started!
Welcome to another episode of M season Miley season for Maran and Isa very special season in our life we both have a second life a life we trying to live to our fullest and there’s many examples of things that will happen with us and happen to us and how we respond to that
Is what determines this season for us we have a lot of Adventures planned I think our largest Adventure is buying a home in Italy in October we decided to go visit Italy for five weeks we realized there was some touristic things we had to do but most importantly we had
To go and live like locals join us over the next few episodes as we share our trip some of the lessons we learned meet some of the wonderful people we saw there and just be a part of our home buying experience come with us we were fortunate enough to get a
Great deal on business class tickets aboard British Airways lots of leg room lots of comfortable space and yes I am smiling I’m taking in Maria as this will be her first business class trip from the USA to Italy we landed in Marco Polo Airport in Venice spent the night in must and
Headed to the station first thing in the morning Maria and I were doing the platform dance cuz that changed at the last minute and we very nearly missed our train quite an experience put you bolog bolog here going so first morning of the adventure flew in last night LAX through London
He good change of the baggage made it so British Airways gets two thumbs up from us made it onto the train and just this beautiful caling ride through the gorgeous Italian side at a mere 220 km an hour and I apologize for my math prob 140 150 M
Hour started with a lovely cup of coffee and a Heart full of enthusiasm so off to tusy to Kean next stop will be B to pick up a rental car then a quick 2hour drive check into a Airbnb and continue with the adventure Our first evening we stayed on an Agri turis called Bine at about €500 for five night this is the entrance to beautiful Bine the Hamlet is on the right hand side it’s a residential unit that has quite a number of people living there here on the left is the beautiful Airbnb
That we were able to book Maria will walk us through it so you come into this large combined area that is a living room a very well-appointed kitchen with everything that you could ask for especially the dishwasher a dining room table that seats 12 a couch that I could
Sleep on quite comfortably and a beautiful fireplace we then transition into its own bathroom which yes you can shut the door it has a large Beautiful shower and we move into the master the master has a very very comfortable queen bed and great light let’s do a flyover of the Hamlet This morning we woke up slightly slower start to the day than we were expecting heading off to San Jano baby where else are we going today no we’re going voltera first voltera first from voltera to San jimano and in San jimano now we’re out here under the orices of
Looking for a property but I think we’ll be in full tourist night so come with us and let’s go have a little fun wait a minute we came out to Italy to buy a house Maria and I have broken our house choices out into four broad categories and in this video
We starting with two one would be the Hamlet where we are staying for the Airbnb the second would be to live in a medieval town we are going to go through a process of looking at the different towns and we’ll go through that process by eating the food and just walking
Around and being a part of that atmosphere and that culture we do think that it would be great to live in a medieval Town we’re a little concerned that it’s not going to be quiet enough we think it’s going to be great to live in a hamlet but we’re a
Little concerned that it might just be too quiet so let’s go eat the food experience everything there is and see which one of these categories comes out on top for us come with us it’s a big pizza I didn’t expect it to be so big sorry Maria drop my pizza
Down I crashed the pizza I was going to say B poo but it’s not so B [Laughter] anymore F haa had lunch lovely bit of pizza dekf coffee definitely the lunch of Champions yes now going to walk around town taking all the sites the shops the people come with
Us vola is a wall Town Southwest of Florence in Italy we really liked voltera we loved the feeling of being inside a med eval City the locals were out in the day and what struck us were how few visitors it had there weren’t throngs and crowds we loved the archway
Over this beautiful little Street which clearly would be somebody’s apartment a place where they would live we came on a market day a lot of food in Italy is sourced locally the markets are an opportunity for those local vendors to bring the food to the consumer something to notice
Dollar are nearly parity with euros and there are 2.2 lb in a kilogram the prices you saw were for kilog there was a great Seafood selection and I would wager that we were no more than 60 minutes from the ocean plenty of opportunity to get the fish here nice
And fresh what we also loved was the fresh fruit and all the fresh vegetables what continued to amaze us was just how it f hor it was and right back to the job of house hunting the little place in the middle is available for 99,000 needs a lot of
Love an apartment downtown for 239,000 another house out in the country that needs renovation for 110 we found properties here ranging from sub1 100,000 to over $2 million there is a wide WI selection of Choices with voltera behind us we drive to San Jimmy Jano thank you Maria for the wonderful Drone footage the drive is spectacular through some of the most beautiful scenery you will see in Tuscany San jimano is an Italian Hill town in Tuscany Southwest of Florence the skyline is a very distinct series of
Medieval towers and the Oldtown centers on Pia DEA sna a triangular Square lined with Medieval houses well we starting part two of the day we’re in s Jimmy J just got Rockstar parking in P2 it’s worth waiting and seeing if you can do it it’s afternoon it’s definitely Autumn
If you look at the streets when we take pictures there going to be lots of shade I think people are thinning out a little bit but we’re here to do all the window shopping known to man and have a superb D did we get around to looking at properties today maybe not
Come with us Maria and I love a good chakery and the selection of cheese wine and salamis and other cold cats is simply Outstanding for a mere €1 a bottle we can ship a case back home baby finally we arrive in the pza de s the ultimate goal of the trip today to eat the best gelato in the world dond Del and we’ll focus on that more in a
Moment as you can see it’s again a market day and what we loved were the fruit trees that people had brought at this point the square is almost abandoned and as we continue to move through you will see the Square fill up gelataria dondoli is regarded as the
Pvea of the finest sbet in the world we jumped in the queue with everybody else and we’re very lucky to have a conversation with the owner with spoils in hand we headed back for a seat in the Piaza just finished eating Tom Dolly Gill world fous world championship
Incredible texture and flavors must do if you are here in s Jim we have to run around look at some of the patas have a look at some shopping come join us let’s walk around and see what we can see we leave the main Piaza follow the market into the Piaza Del
Domo again just surrounded by these magnificent towers that are just centuries old you will notice how quickly the crowd starts picking up and again as a reminder we are in the offseason if you are looking to buy a home right here in oico Centro the Historical Center you need to think
About all the people that will be there every single day let’s see what the market has to offer feel the smell of the cheese is something else sheep yes a sheep so cool Sal this monent is sponsored by eal Spritz and zero alcohol P Mama moment Mama
Moment our mama moment rolled on to the early evening and we headed out to Rialto for dinner at Rigoletto we ordered the steak Florentino 3.3 lbs of delicious beef ranging anywhere from 55 to about €70 highly recommended fore
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Great video, love the commentary!
beautiful video and great pictures of Tuscany!
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