Real Life in Italy - March 2026

We'll talk all about our experience living and working in Italy this past month.

Among other things, for this month’s episode, you’ll hear about:

- A wedding;
- home improvements;
- and the foreskin of Jesus Christ himself.

Join us as we aim to give listeners a glimpse of real life in Italy!

Want to know more about us and our travel services? Find us at: 

www.LittleRoadsEurope.com

www.facebook.com/LittleRoadsEurope

We craft small-town driving itineraries for travelers to Italy, Ireland and Scotland.

And our "alter-egos" as musicians:

www.OrsiniVirtuosi.it

Transcript

Slice of Life - March 2026 podcast notes

Note: This is not a complete transcript, but rather the show notes we write in advance to prepare for the episode. 

INTRO: 

Welcome to Little Roads Unfiltered: Italy and Beyond

Today we’re introducing a new type of episode: Real Life In Italy

We’ll be giving you a little slice of life - what we did with ourselves this past month…

Among other things, you’ll hear about:

- A wedding, 

- home improvements,

- and the foreskin of Jesus Christ himself 

[music up then down to 20%]

This is Matt Walker          …and I’m Zeneba Bowers - 

We’re recording while sitting on the terrace of our tiny home in Italy - so you’ll get a sense of the sounds of life in our little town - complete with traffic, church bells, cats meowing, motor scooters and trains and neighbors chatting and whatever else.

“ … we’ll be talking about our lives here in Italy, in today’s chat - here on Little Roads Unfiltered: Italy and Beyond.”

[Music up then fade out]

For those of you who don’t know us: We are professional musicians and also travel writers and consultants, living and working here in Italy for the past 6 years. 

If you want to learn more about us and our lives, you can find us on our website LittleRoadsEurope..com, on our socials, and now here on our podcast…

…and by the way, we hope you like our intro music - Matt arranged it, and we recorded it right here in our house! Since we’re musicians working here in Italy, we thought that would be a fun and sensible addition to our show.

So let’s get to talking about what we’ve been up to this past month:

March 2026: 

Started out the month w birthday lunch with friends - hard to find cheddar cheese

[normally take advantage of things here, rather than import stuff - but we occasionally miss something like cheddar cheese]

Trip to buy cheddar cheese; 

explored Deruta afterwards - ceramic art everywhere

Renovations - cabinets/wardrobe/bookshelf - refer to renovation podcast

Used chance to take research trip to Bolsena - lodging 80/night 

- living/walking in Bolsena, Crypt Santa Cristina, castle, lakeside (FLAT!)

Wedding in Viterbo - 

Delayed getting to gig by snafu w client, scramble, shaving

Renaissance town hall, high beams / frescoes - Mayor officiated

Saxophone concert - checked out concert venue after 

One of the things we like about Soriano is frequent musical or other artistic events 

Recording Welsh songs for my Grandma, on violin she bought for me over 30 years ago

Ask us anything: Recent itinerary client asked: What is work day/week like?

Set own hours, but varies a lot depending on how many clients

Easy to get bogged down all day every day on computer

Important to carve out time to relax but also to get away for research… like:

Trip to Calcata w friends - refer to Bo & Lee episode

Town, artist colony, lodgings

Next day: special bakery, hill town w liquorificio 

[These are the kinds of things we seek out for our travelers]

OUTRO: 

I think that’s a good place to wrap it up here - we hope you enjoyed joining us for our sort of monthly wrap-up!

If you enjoyed what you’ve heard, please give us a like or a good rating on your favorite platform, and tell your friend about us… 

And don’t forget our Ask Us Anything, which ecc ecc

We talk about a wide variety of topics here on this podcast, from travel tips to slice-of-life stories - and we post new episodes every Tuesday. 

So catch us next time - we’ll see you down the Little Roads… CIAO!