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Julia and Bernd

We guide families and couples toward flexible online work, so they can create more presence, time and connection in everyday life.

24/09/2026

We once heard a story about a fisherman
and a businessman on a beach…

The businessman explains how the fisherman
could work more,
catch more,
sell more,
build a company, sell it one day,
and finally have time
to relax, fish, and be with family…

The fisherman looks at him and says,
„That’s what I’m doing right now.“ ☀️

We loved that story for years.

But there’s a part of it
we don’t fully agree with anymore.

The fisherman already had the lifestyle…
He didn’t have the choice.

If the season was bad,
if he got sick,
if he simply wanted a different life,
he had one option. Keep fishing…

For years we had the opposite problem.

Good jobs. Steady income.
And almost no say in how our days looked… 🤯

What we were actually looking for
wasn’t more hustle,
and it wasn’t „do nothing on a beach“ either…

It was choice.

The ability to decide
how today looks,
without asking anyone for permission.

Julia built the first version of it alongside her job,
the way most people start.
Bernd left his before we even began, right before our trip.

Two different paths to the same thing.

Gaining the flexibility
to shape our days ourselves.

If that’s something
you’ve been having on your mind too,
take a look at our bio. 🫶🏼

Would you rather have the fisherman’s life
or the choice to build one like it?

20/09/2026

Is Lake Garda even Italy anymore?

We used to ask ourselves
a version of this too.

Sitting somewhere by the lake,
hearing German at the next table,
wondering why it felt so international.

Now we live here.
And we see it differently.

Yes, it’s touristy in summer.
A few kilometres away,
the world already looks different.

And eventually you learn
that visiting and living
are two completely different things.

On holiday, it’s convenient
when someone speaks your language.

When you live here, at some point
you’re sitting in a government office,
or talking to a handyman,
and there’s no way around
actually learning Italian.

And honestly, that’s a good thing.

If you want a quieter version
of this area, here’s where we go.

-Lake Idro, about 45 minutes away.
-Val Vestino on the drive there,
almost untouched.
-Monzambano and Borghetto sul Mincio
to the south, one of the prettiest
places we’ve found.
-And the Mincio bike path
if you want to slow right down.

Save this for your next trip here. 📍

11/09/2026

Five years married today.

And more years together before that,
in a life that looked completely different.

Shift work… Long flights…
Two people who barely saw each other
and still knew they were building
towards something.

We organised our wedding in Italy ourselves,
with almost no Italian,
and everyone told us it was a bit crazy. 💍

Today we live here.
With Elio. By the lake.
In the country we got married in.

Some parts did not went the way we planned it…
But most of the best parts never do.

Out of all the roads we could have taken,
we’re grateful every single day
that ours ended up running together. 🫶🏼

Happy anniversary, us.

Where did you get married?

03/09/2026

Our first trip to an Italian
government office.

We walk in. The place is completely empty.
Two people working. Nobody waiting…

We go straight to the counter.
The clerk starts helping us…

Then a supervisor appears.

We have to go back
and pull a queue number.

For the empty room…

The clerk didn’t understand it either.
We pulled our number,
walked three meters back to the same counter,
and continued exactly where we left off. 😅

Something you need to know when you plan to move to Italy.

The bureaucracy is real.
We’d honestly say it’s bigger than in Germany,
and we didn’t think that was possible.

Nevertheless, almost every single visit
turned out easier than we feared.
Slower, yes. With more paper, yes.
But people were helpful and patient,
even with our broken Italian.

All you need is patience,
a sense of humour,
and a queue number.
For the empty room.

Have you made similar experiences?

27/08/2026

A late morning by the lake.
On a completely normal weekday.

Nowhere we have to rush off to…

What if that’s the real luxury?

We used to think freedom meant
reaching a point where we’d never
have to work again.

We see it differently now.

We still work. Of course we do. 💻
But we decide when. From where. How much.
And what our days actually look like.

And when you do something
you genuinely enjoy,
at some point it stops feeling
only like work.

Not every day looks like this,
and that’s not the point.

The point isn’t to never work.
It’s to have more say
in how your own life feels. 🫶

What does freedom mean to you?

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