Episodes
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If you asked a friend, "In one hour, tell me everything that's important about visiting Rome," this would be pretty close to their response.
If you'd like to support the podcast, one great way to do so is to sign up for Trusted Housesitters through our affiliate link here. Not sure what house sitting is? Well, we'd love to be the ones to introduce you to the best way to travel through the articles here, or our podcast episodes here.
Thank you all so much for listening!
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In this episode we delve into the people using broad generalizations, what kind of transportation to expect (or not expect), why the south feels so chaotic, what's with all the 1980s apartment buildings, and did we say "witchcraft"? Why yes, we did.
If you'd like to support the podcast, one great way to do so is to sign up for Trusted Housesitters through our affiliate link here. Not sure what house sitting is? Well, we'd love to be the ones to introduce you to the best way to travel through the articles here, or our podcast episodes here.
Thank you all so much for listening!
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In this second episode we cover the differences in coffee (shorter and punchier), food (dry pasta is southern), and the Mediterranean Diet. As well as a whole slew of other sidetracks.
If you'd like to support the podcast, one great way to do so is to sign up for Trusted Housesitters through our affiliate link here. Not sure what house sitting is? Well, we'd love to be the ones to introduce you to the best way to travel through the articles here, or our podcast episodes here.
Thank you all so much for listening, and we hope you enjoy this episode.
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This is going to be a two-part episode, with this as part one: a rambling history and some general ideas of what to expect. The next episode will [hopefully] focus more on concrete expectations!
To support Only A Bag, you can sign up for one of the travel-oriented credit cards below. None of them have a yearly fee, which is one of the reasons we like them so much. (To learn more about the cards, you can either listen to the 3rd episode in the series, or search online for reviews about the card.) If you're not comfortable with opening a Credit Card, we encourage you not to. There is no pressure here, just some helpful tips.
Our favorite simple-to-use card: Capital One Quicksilver
Our favorite for food and restaurants: Capital One Savor
Our go-to for purchasing flights and lodging: Chase Freedom Unlimited
All-around solid card with great cash back: Discover it
As always, you can check out www.onlyabag.com for more information about traveling in Italy!
Thanks for listening,
Darcy and Nathaniel
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Points, Miles, Cash Back: Which is best for you? And do you really need a credit card?
We finally purchased a second microphone, so this special episode mini-series might sound a little uneven while we work ou the kinks. If it sounds especially atrocious on your headphones/phone/speakers, please let us know!
To support Only A Bag, you can sign up for one of the travel-oriented credit cards below. None of them have a yearly fee, which is one of the reasons we like them so much. (To learn more about the cards, you can either listen to the 3rd episode in this mini series, or search online for reviews about the card.) If you're not comfortable with opening a Credit Card, we encourage you not to. There is no pressure here, just some helpful tips.
Our favorite simple-to-use card: Capital One Quicksilver
Our favorite for food and restaurants: Capital One Savor
Our go-to for purchasing flights and lodging: Chase Freedom Unlimited
All-around solid card with great cash back: Discover it
As always, you can check out www.onlyabag.com for more information about traveling in Italy!
Thanks for listening,
Darcy and Nathaniel
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Checking accounts, debit cards, and how to access your money abroad without paying extraordinary fees.
We finally purchased a second microphone, so this special episode mini-series might sound a little uneven while we work ou the kinks. If it sounds especially atrocious on your headphones/phone/speakers, please let us know!
To support Only A Bag, you can sign up for one of the travel-oriented credit cards below. None of them have a yearly fee, which is one of the reasons we like them so much. (To learn more about the cards, you can either listen to the 3rd episode in this mini series, or search online for reviews about the card.) If you're not comfortable with opening a Credit Card, we encourage you not to. There is no pressure here, just some helpful tips.
Our favorite simple-to-use card: Capital One Quicksilver
Our favorite for food and restaurants: Capital One Savor
Our go-to for purchasing flights and lodging: Chase Freedom Unlimited
All-around solid card with great cash back: Discover it
As always, you can check out www.onlyabag.com for more information about traveling in Italy!
Thanks for listening,
Darcy and Nathaniel
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How to convert currency, let your bank know you're traveling, and everything else you need to know before you hit the road!
We finally purchased a second microphone, so this special episode mini-series might sound a little uneven while we work out the kinks. If it sounds especially atrocious in your headphones/phone/speakers, please let us know!
To support Only A Bag, you can sign up for one of the travel-oriented credit cards below. None of them have a yearly fee, which is one of the reasons we like them so much. (To learn more about the cards, you can either listen to the 3rd episode in this mini series, or search online for reviews about the card.) If you're not comfortable with opening a Credit Card, we encourage you not to. There is no pressure here, just some helpful tips.
Our favorite simple-to-use card: Capital One Quicksilver
Our favorite for food and restaurants: Capital One Savor
Our go-to for purchasing flights and lodging: Chase Freedom Unlimited
All-around solid card with great cash back: Discover it
As always, you can check out www.onlyabag.com for more information about traveling in Italy!
Thanks for listening,
Darcy and Nathaniel
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Perugia is a city of great food, and an abundance of it. It's almost impossible to find a bad restaurant, but just in case, we offer some of our favorite restaurant—especially for those of you who are getting tired of Italian food.If you'd like to support the podcast, one great way to do so is to sign up for Trusted Housesitters through our affiliate link here. Not sure what house sitting is? Well, we'd love to be the ones to introduce you to the best way to travel through the articles here, or our podcast episodes here.And if you're looking for a food tour of Perugia, you can click our affiliate link here, or search for "Perugia Food Tours" through your favorite search browser.You can find a list of our favorite places to eat in Perugia here, our handy-dandy Google Maps list. Lastly, we would love it if you were to take this poll on your listening habits! https://forms.gle/SZPLF1Xy5iU3uHrd9Thank you all so much for listening, we hope you enjoyed this episode!
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Perugia, a relatively unknown city in the north; a just-as-beautiful relative of Tuscany at a fraction of the price.
(At some point Nathaniel mistakenly said Montepulciano is in Umbria, when it is in fact in Tuscany, so, sommelier classes aren't going so well.)
As always, if you'd like to support us, you can do so by using this link to sign up for Trusted Housesitters!
We also mentioned we'd look for a link to a tour that we've heard of and trust, and this is one that has been operating since we were there. If you want to check the offerings for yourself, you can click here, or google "Perugia food tours".
Lastly, we mentioned two rental websites, which are below:
https://www.idealista.it/
https://www.immobiliare.it/
As always, we'd love it if you were to check out our ever-improving website www.onlyabag.com
Thank you all so much for listening, and we hope you enjoy the episode!
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The larger-than-life stretch of towns along the Ligurian Coast with their pastel homes and craggy coves have inspired tourists for years. In this episode, we delve into what those towns are, what sets the apart, how to get there, how to walk between them, and some of our favorite food.
To support us, consider signing up for Trusted Housesitters through our affiliate link—we'd deeply appreciate it!
And for those of you who want to grab a pair of hiking shoes (or any other last-minute gear purchases), consider checking out Moosejaw with our affiliate link.
This website (linked here) has all of the trails as well as when they closed and when they're open, as well as some ticketing information.
And for an easy-access list of our favorite food, we've made it into a simple Google Maps List.
As always, we hope you enjoy this episode! If you could like it, rate it, follow us, or whatever the "good" button is on your platform, we would seriously appreciate it.
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While the Palio and the Duomo are two of Siena's major draws, they're not the only reason to visit this hilltop town.
In this episode we cover getting there, the history of the Palio, why the Duomo is so interestingly built, and why you should try panforte and cantucci. Plus, some of the best day trips!
To support us, you can use this Trainline link to buy your bus and train tickets (for anywhere, to just Italy!) or our Tiqets link to purchase things like entry to the Duomo (only 9€!).
As always, we would love you forever if you were leave us a review or follow us on Spotify.
Thank you for listening!
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Using Florence as a home-base for your Italy trip? Here are the top 17 places to visit in one-day from Florence. We're talking about places from 40 minutes one-way on the fast train to Bologna to 3 hours, for those bucket-list locations like Venice and Cinque Terre.
If you'd like to support us, you can do so by purchasing your next train or bus trip through Trainline, an easy-to-use aggregate of train and bus fares. It's the way we search for and buy our tickets! You can find our affiliate link by clicking here. It won't cost you anything extra, but it will give us a dollar or two.
If you like Only a Bag, please like, or click the "positive button" wherever you're hearing this podcast.
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Sandwiches, pastries, gelato, wine to-go, and what is lampredotto? We've got you covered with a list of our favorite food in Florence.
If you prefer reading, you can find our review of La Strega Nocciola, our current favorite gelateria in Florence, here!
As always, thank you for listening!
If you'd like to support us, you can do with by purchasing your next train trip through Trainline, an easy-to-use aggregate of train and bus fares. You can find our affiliate link by clicking here!
And if you're planning out which sights to see and when to go, Tiqets has you covered with tickets! This is also an affiliate link that will support Only A Bag with a small portion of Tiqets' cut.
If you'd like to follow us on Instagram, we'd love that! We can be found at only
_a_bag. Likewise, you can keep up to date with what we're doing on our website, www.onlyabag.com.
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Hello and welcome back! In this episode we are back to talking about Florence! Headed to Florence but short on time? We've got you covered with tips on what to see in Florence, what to skip, what's free in Florence, and what's worth the price. While we mentioned in episode 3, Florence can be a day trip, an ideal trip to Florence could be 4-6 days. Enough time to see the galleries, catch a few sunsets from the rose garden at the Piazzale Michelangelo, and stroll the Ponte Vecchio.
If you want to support the podcast, and book tickets for the Uffizi, click here!
That is our affiliate link to Tiquets, a ticket-buying platform.
Likewise, if you want to go to the Galleria Academia, click here for affiliate tickets! As always, we hope you enjoy! We'd love it if you followed us on Instagram: Only_a_bagAnd, of course, check out our new website! www.onlyabag.com
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Benvenuti a La Settimana Infernale, or Week of Hell, named for the intense heatwave lazily moving across southern Europe. Here's an update on what's happening in Rome, what to do if you're visiting during the anticyclone causing the heatwave, and what is an anticyclone?
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Hello, hello! Welcome back to Episode 3 of Season 2.
In this episode, we're talking about Florence. Specifically, we are taking about how to get there (planes, trains, and automobiles (buses)), and how to get around.
We're also offering a very brief history. Not necessarily of Florence, but of Italy as a whole, and how the local dialect of Florence ended up as Italy's national language.
In this episode, we mentioned Trainline, a way of purchasing train and bus tickets in a surprisingly easy way. Here's our affiliate link: https://trainline.tp.st/Xo3tZo7p
Of course, we'd love it if you were to check out our brand-new website onlyabag.com!
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Hello and welcome back to Episode 2!
Before we get to talking about the North, Florence specifically, we wanted to very briefly go over a few points of interest about Rome that we haven't previously mentioned. In particular, we wanted to talk about how to stay cool on those heat-wave days that send Rome past the triple digits, and which day trips are feasible (and which aren't).
In this episode, we mention a few parks:
Villa Borghese (Near Flaminio)
Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele (Near Termini)
The grounds of Palazzo Barberini (The front area of the Museum)
Giardino degli Aranci (Near the famous keyhole)
Giardino di Sant'Alessio (Also near the keyhole)
Villa Celimontana (Near the Baths of Caracalla and the Colosseum)
As always, our website is www.onlyabag.com
And we would love it if you were to follow us on Instagram @only_a_bag.
Enjoy!
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Hello and welcome back!
We apologize for having been gone for so long. While Only A Bag has always been on our minds, we couldn't figure out the time to sit down and finally record another episode.
And then we found the time!
Here's episode one of Season 2.
We lightly delve into "northern" Italy vs "southern" Italy, and how it might affect your trip to Italy.
At one point, we mentioned a bakery in Siena, which is here: https://goo.gl/maps/Js4UEQfURAr1JEr5A
We have also re-vamped our website: www.onlyabag.com.
Thank you all so much for listening! We hope you enjoy the episode!
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Welcome back!
(If you prefer to read the podcast as an article, you can find it here!)
Now that you've learned all you can about getting started with house sitting, we thought we could share our favorite house sitting websites. These might not be the best, but these are the ones we've had the most luck with, or the most pleasant interactions with homeowners through.
Like always, we hope you enjoy!
Nathaniel and Darcy
Here are some links to the mentioned websites! If you use an affiliate link, we'll make a little money.
Trusted House Sitters: Affiliate Link | Non-Affiliate Link
Nomador: Non-Affiliate Link
MindMyHouse: Non-Affiliate Link
House Sitters UK: Affiliate Link | Non-Affiliate Link
House Sitters America: Affiliate Link | Non-Affiliate Link
House Sitters Australia: Affiliate Link | Non-Affiliate Link
(These are not the best house sitting websites in the world, only the ones we like.)
Our website: Only A Bag
Instagram Page: Only_a_bag
Medium: @Nathanielmellor
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Welcome back to another episode of our housesitting series!
If you prefer to read our advice, you can find the article on our website!
In this episode, we talk about the "house." For us, this means cleaning the house when we leave, how to treat the house when we're there, and what to do in the absolute certainty that you break something.
We hope you enjoy!
Want to jump right into house sitting? Here are some links to our favorite websites!
Trusted House Sitters: Affiliate Link | Non-Affiliate Link
Nomador: Non-Affiliate Link
MindMyHouse: Non-Affiliate Link
House Sitters UK: Affiliate Link | Non-Affiliate Link
House Sitters America: Affiliate Link | Non-Affiliate Link
(These are not the best house sitting websites in the world, only the ones we like.)
Our website: Only A Bag
Instagram Page: Only_a_bag
Medium: @Nathanielmellor
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