Welcome to Episode 102 102 of my podcast The view from the crow's nest, and it is the 15th Tuesday the 15th of September 2020. As you may know, for the last few days I've either by choice or not so much by choice, had a few days off of work. And as a consequence, sort of three days off or whatever it was getting back into it getting my mind into it was a bit more challenging. So this morning I kicked off with some training with personal trainer. And that was good but then I was, yeah just a bit, kind of, I didn't want to just rush straight into turning my computer on and going into the same old habits or being busy for business sake and I thought, you know, let's have a bit of a think, and I don't know if I was just procrastinating for for not getting on with things, quote unquote, I should have been getting on with, or whether you know I really need to think about stuff. And one of the things I was thinking about was how can I living situation and the things that we want the things we need and the plans and blah blah. In fact, as I said yesterday in the podcast you know I really felt that fulfil that we're kind of on a very turning a big turning point of a new era, new a big new section of our life the next five or 10 years like closing off the last 10 years kind of thing and then moving on with the next kind of 510 years. And part of maybe that'll go around my brain I don't know but so I was thinking about our upcoming move, we decided, a while ago that in a few weeks, hand side of the exact date, we're going to move back to Castroville array, which is in the region of Calabria further south in Italy. And that's where we were for pretty much the winter. In fact, over the winter from about October last year through to March when we came back to Ischia, and it was only ever meant to be temporary. And even six months was far longer than we envisaged, and that was that. And then we're thinking we're gonna go back tail end of this year for a few months and then see what happens with COVID see what happens with our finances, see if we're able to travel again etc etc. And we, we did you know it was gonna it's always going to be a temporary kind of kind of place. Anyways. On a related note, you know, we've thought about and we've discussed that we want to base when we're travelling this summer we wanted for years. And we thought about looking in certain places to buy where it's gonna be a lot cheaper than others we thought about a big lifelong project that I talked about. I don't know, probably about 40 podcasts ago or even more about some, some proper bonkers idea about a kind of building in a state or like community project estate bit by bit over the years. And I'm not going to go into that now but that was kind of one of the ideas and we're like, yeah, we really settled on that that's what I want to do is our big kind of long lifelong plan and they they're the base etc. So we talked about all these things we need this we want to go here we want to have this, and then it occurred to us well curtain here that we've got this apartment in juke castability, which were intending to sell when we can. And, you know, it's just a small two bed apartment. But it occurred to me that rather than thinking about it as a temporary place where you know internet is coming from, you know, 4g on our phones, not even, you know, having a proper broadband put in there or anything. And I thought what if we considered it as a home base for the next kind of two three years. How would that change how we plan it and how we react to it. So for example, we're currently paying about 130 140 quid or something, a month for storage of some of our stuff that's in the UK and a storage locker. And, you know, how much would it cost to have somebody transport that stuff down to us in Castroville or in store it there, at least, maybe it would cover the cost of the transportation you know maybe the next six 710 months worth of storage fees would be would be saved by the
