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We are Selene and Jonathan
• Our Story
I promise I will be brief, Everything started when Selene was 5 years old…haha just kidding!
We are both Italians, Selene was born and raised in Padua (north of Italy) but she always spent her summers in Sardinia as her mum was born there. Jonathan was born and raised in Olbia when his mum moved to the island from Dominican Republic before he was born.
Our love story was filled with missed opportunities and the typical ” It wasn’t the right time” kind of moments. We met in Padova when Jonathan came to visit some friends from Sardinia, we apparently had the same friends for more than 5 years, yet we never found ourselves in the same room before his trip to Padova, and we didn’t meet then neither, he came back a few months after to meet a girl he met in the city (I know, eyes rolling) but he actually met Selene.
That will be the perfect love story but life is not really a movie isn’t it? We only started seriously dating 3 years after we met, after we both moved to London and spent one year doing our own thing in the city.
• Fun Fact
Selene’s aunt is a clairvoyant and she read Selene’s cards when she found out we weren’t together anymore (this is what we were told years later from Selene’s mum). She foresaw that we will be together again (which we did) and that it will be forever.
Let’s hope she’s right!
• Our Full Time Travel Journey
Would you believe it if we told you that before leaving London and quitting our jobs we were actually about to ask our bank a loan to buy a house in Central London?
Then Corona happened , and turned everything upside down, gave us time to think about what we really want from this life and allowed us to find out if we were truly happy with our current situation in the city.
And we weren’t!!
We started talking about travelling around the world for 6 months, 6 months quickly became 1 year till it became “as far as our savings will carry us”.
We had a pretty leaner life in London for over 7 years, were work became our life and the plan that creeped into our minds was “Let’s work and save as much as we can so once we are finally in pension we can go and travel the world”
Wait What?
When we finally had time to think and clear out the fog that surrounded our brains we said NO. NO to that plan and that sort of life, no to waiting an entire life time before actually living it the way we want to.
And once we had that realisation everything became pretty clear for us, it’s like we finally heard that voice inside us that had been screaming in our brains for so long.
And so we quit, with a smile on our faces and a light heart, we sold everything we owned and bought a one way ticket.
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