Day 4214: Palazzo and Sumo.

 

 

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She moved to Italy and bought a palazzo for a fresh start. Her ex-husband came with her

This divorced couple bought this Italian palazzo together

Italian connection: Kelly and Jesse Galloway from Australia, pictured with their dog Vonny, purchased Palazzo Menichelli, situated in the Italian village of Stimigliano for €123,000 ($132,700) in 2020.

Kelly and Jess love the slower pace of life in Stimigliano, situated in the Lazio region of Italy.

The pair, who’ve been divorced since 2013, decided to purchase the historic property, situated in the village of Stimigliano in the central Lazio region of Italy, almost instantly. “The agent led us through this covered walkway, opened the door and brought us into this beautiful big kitchen,” said Kelly, a former furniture manufacturer. “Then [we went] through the kitchen and into the main entrance, and I stood and looked up the staircase and began to cry.”

Kelly and Jess, who were previously married for 18 years, are now the proud owners of Palazzo Menichelli, which had been left empty for around three decades. We’ve been platonic for many years,” explains Kelly. “But we’re good friends. And I saw it as a chance for Jess to have a home of his own and for me to have a home of my own and [for us to] live happy ever after in this beautiful place.” When she traveled to Italy for the first time in 2018, Kelly says she fell in love with the country “more than ever.”

By the following year, her home in Australia was on the market and she’d put down a deposit on a palazzo located in the town of Alvito in the Lazio region. But as the global Covid-19 pandemic developed, Kelly became nervous about taking on such a big project and pulled out of the deal.

Despite this setback, she was determined to move to Italy as soon as she could, and decided to ask Jess if he’d be willing come along to help her settle in.“I had said that I thought he might end up deciding that he wanted to stay in Italy,” she says. “So he came with me under that set of circumstances.”

Kelly goes on to explain that she and Jess, who have three children, stayed close after their split, and continued to work together. “We still dabbled in a lot of stuff together and sometimes traveled together to deliver things and so on,” she adds.

In July 2020, the pair flew to Italy with two greyhounds, Vonny and Gooee, in tow. Although Jess, who’d never traveled to Italy before then, only intended to stay for a short time, he loved the property, which was rebuilt by an Italian family named the Menichellis in 1901, when he and Kelly went to view it the following month.After negotiating with the owners, they agreed to buy Palazzo Menichelli for €123,000 ($132,700).

While Jess had only planned to stay in Italy for a short time, he’s taken to the country immensely and feels settled in Stimigliano, which is located just an hour from Rome. “Everyone’s been extremely friendly and helpful,” says Jess. “It’s a really great community.” However, the pair admit that they’ve found learning Italian and communicating with the locals to be hugely challenging. And while Jess has been picking words up along the way and can “sort of scrape by” at the supermarket, he’s far from fluent.

"We do go to all of the local events. And the wonderful thing about little Italian towns is that there’s constantly events going on.” Kelly’s been hugely impressed by the warmth and kindness of the local community, describing how their neighbors will sometimes ”turn up at our door and give us a lasagna,” because they often “make dozens and hand them to friends.” Jess often finds himself being handed a free coffee or bottle of wine while out and about. Kelly loves the slower pace of life in their Italian town. “And if you’re walking past, everybody says ‘hello’ and they just give each other a helping hand. “It’s like something out of a fairy tale book. 

It really is.”

Read entire article, here.

   

Time for Sumo!

Sunday, March 10, 2024 is the first day of the

  

All matches are  shown on youtube, all 15 days of the basho (tournament). Both in Japanese and in English by NHK, here.  There are six basho each year, the current basho in Osaka.

 

I love everything about Sumo.

The tradition still honored.

The cleansing of the ring.

The skill and dedication.

And, the fact that you can't tell

by the sumo player's demeanor ,

which is the winner or defeated.

No boasting. Manners.

I love Sumo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The idea of a 15 consecutive day basho (tournament) and the champion being the winner with most wins of 15 days of sumo competition.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

A 3+ minute video, Ladybug Cycle, here

 

 

 

 

 

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