George

About me

Gender Male
Location Puglia, Italy
Introduction Like many people I spent my working life in a highly competitive corporate environment. The main (well, only) purpose of my existence was to achieve a bigger salary and bigger bonus so that I could buy more stuff that I didn't need. We were reasonably well off, financially, but so much poorer as far as our quality of life was concerned. In 2004,following a brief encounter with cancer, my thinking began to change concerning my life and my priorities. I left my job in 2005 and a year later my wife and I started the search for somewhere new to live - a new country, a new adventure. In November 2006 we travelled extensively throughout Italy and stumbled upon the region of Puglia. Puglia has an unsophisticated charm that really only exists in the south of Italy. We set up home here in the autumn of 2007 having said goodbye forever to our life in England. We are poorer now, financially, than we have ever been, but our lives are so much richer for being here. In my blogs I hope to share with you some of our experiences in the Mezzogiorno - the good and the bad - and provide you with a taste of life in Italy's deep south.
Interests Most things "Italian".