Alessandro

Manarola

“I live here. I have the sea, my fields, and the city is just 10 minutes away by train. I once lived in Denmark and then in Russia. That’s where my wife and I met, now we have a 5-year-old son. No, she’s not Russian, she’s from Tuscany

I have never been particularly ambitious when it comes to work, I translate for a living.

If there are fewer translating jobs, I work in the fields. January was a beautiful month this year. I cut the grass, the reeds in the creek and then I cleared the olive grove. Now the mill needs to be restored.

I don’t want a career where I have to go to Frankfurt for six years. Afterwards, who will give those six years back to me?”