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Today’s breakfast:

Peach omelette (3 eggs)

#foodstr

Of course!

(this is Hotel Bagni Nuovi)

Years ago had a bad stay (broken ankle) and at last I decided to come back. They wisely used covid closures to add more experiences and renovate the hotel.

Those walls were built in the Renaissance period when the Pope reigned over a country in Central Italy and regularly fought wars with other Italian states. So they needed walls in order to resist in case of siege.

Show cooking for tourists 😎

After all you have three things in Rome: the state, the church and tourism. Of course the most honest is tourism 😜

Replying to Avatar JeffG

Just been in Bormio a few days 👍

Well, it is substantially true and imho the main reason is Italy has had a very low birth rate since the ‘90s (and it keeps going down). There has been an ethnic substitution - whatever you may call it - but of course immigrants cannot afford many houses and so prices went down a lot. Lots of people own their dead parents houses and they don’t renovate them because it is not economically convenient.

Things are very different in big cities like Milano or Roma and in major tourist destinations, where prices went up steadily in the past 10 years. Scarce properties’ prices in Milan skyrocketed. Sounds familiar? :)

Have a hot bath maybe once a week all year. Have a shower almost daily in summer, very seldom in winter.

Got a “special” loan at 0% a few years ago - those loans were meant to “help” Covid-hit businesses. Not in favor of loans, but in the Fiat world debt is convenient since real inflation will always overcome interest rates.

So look for lowest possible rates and do it.