Erik on Warpcast

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spur of moment we got invited into an elderly couple’s home tn in sicily for homemade lemoncello and chocolate, they live in a cave home built during middle ages 👀 we talked for 2 hrs about life in sicily, food/wine ofc lol, other towns to check out in the region, and the history of the area - sicily had a massive earthquake on the southeast side that basically turned modica and many towns to rubble in 1693 - some towns lost 20-60% of their population from it, modica being one of them when they rebuilt this region, it was in gorgeous baroque style architecture, which is what makes modica and surrounding towns in the val di noto unesco sights learned about local rivalries in modica that lasted centuries, bc there were 2 saints, one at top of the hill one at bottom of hill. also learned the main street separating the homes on each side of the valley was a river just a century ago fascinating convo w ppl we just met, one of my absolute fav things about living nomadically is hearing ppl’s stories 🫶

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what an incredible experience, damn

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was amazing, gonna get lunch w them sometime in the next few weeks! when we try to take it slow and stay 2-3 months in places, every so often it leads to random experiences like this that we might have missed if in a hurry - another example is we got invited to go w a local shop owner to an olive farm next week lol, just got to talking w him taking our time a few days ago and he invited us bc he needs to go pick up his olive oil that he's gonna sell in his store the world still seems to appreciate genuine curiosity and connection in a lot of places!

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I spent 2 years living like this in 2018-2019 and miss it all the time 🥹

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