Discover Authentic Salento Through Local Eyes
Welcome to Puglia Love! We are Carlo & Gloria. A few years ago we left the corporate rush of Milan to live the slow life in Ugento. Skip the tourist traps and use our insider guides to explore the real Southern Italy. What are you planning?
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Slow Travel TipsVan Life & Slow Travel in Puglia: The Ultimate Local Guide & Our Journey from Milan
Some decisions take years to make. Others take a single moment — a coffee, rain on the window of a Milan apartment, and a question neither of us expected to ask out loud. Ours was the second kind. We are Carlo and Gloria. Until two years ago, we lived the “normal” life of Milan: work,…
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