This series is a collection of my immediate thoughts on what I saw and lived through in Italy, where I moved for work in September 2025. Sometimes it's diary entries, sometimes it's poetry, sometimes just runts about everything and nothing. Enjoy.
Missed Logs 11-20? Read them here. ;)
LOG 21
What do you do when you find out
that the boy about whose pretty eyes
you wrote a poem
reads your online rants?
19-9-25 – Undisclosed town near Bergamo
LOG 22
I still can’t get it right even after five years.
Cooking only for myself, I mean. 🍳🍚
I always cook too much and then eat the same food for multiple days.
That’s how I currently ended up eating pasta Bolognese for four days straight.
Still two more portions to go!
Yeey!
20-9-25 – Undisclosed town near Bergamo
LOG 23
The Italian word for noise is ‘rumore’.
The English meaning of ‘rumor’ is:
‘an unofficial interesting story or piece of news that might be true or invented, and quickly spreads from person to person’
– Cambridge dictionary
It puts it into perspective, doesn’t it?
What else are rumors, if not noise?
20-9-25 – Undisclosed town near Bergamo
LOG 24
Waking up the fifth day to a foul smell and not being able to open the window made me do some research.
Result?
It’s air pollution.
Lombardy sits in a basin between the mountains and because of lack of wind and rain the air pollution stays locked there.
It should rain tomorrow.
I can’t wait.
21-9-25 – Undisclosed town near Bergamo
LOG 25
There is a medieval festival in our town.
The centre is swirling with what must be the entire population of the town and visitors. A lot of people are wearing medieval/renaissance costumes and it almost gives me an impression that it must have been a beautiful era. If you take away all the plague, serfdom and other things that made it generally difficult to make it to your thirties.
Well… but the costumes are really beautiful.
21-9-25 – Undisclosed town near Bergamo
LOG 26
It started raining.
This morning, an hour after I woke up,
a dark blue cloud enveloped the sky and let down all its sadness.
Thank gods for these crying clouds.
They allow people down here to breathe.
22-9-25 – Undisclosed town near Bergamo
LOG 27
I never imagined sitting on a toilet with a monarch.
Yet, our toilet at work allowed me just that.
Imagine sitting down and having the late Elizabeth looking at you… with her panties down.
Good lord, what is this place?
22-9-25 – Undisclosed town near Bergamo
My workplace ↑↑↑
LOG 28
Maybe I should change my hair colour.
My web camera at work shows my hair purple for some reason and it looks cool. 😂💜
… It also shows my black t-shirt as blue. 😂
22-9-25 – Undisclosed town near Bergamo
LOG 29
As it turned out, Malta isn’t the only place that has problems with water drainage. 💦
The underpass on our way home from work was so full of rain water that they had to close it. 👩🚒🚣♀️
But it still hasn’t rained enough to clear the air entirely.
22-9-25 – Undisclosed town near Bergamo
LOG 30
Did you know that Croatia has the shape of a dragon ? 🐉
I had no idea.
My flatmate showed me, she’s from there.
It explains why it has all the sea side.
It’s the dragon’s body. ☺️
22-9-25 – Undisclosed town near Bergamo
