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Life in Slow Motion: Rich & Alex’s Italian Chapter

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Nov 04, 2025
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Alex Bowman Bassin & Richard Marvin from London

When Rich and Alex left their flat in Hackney for a sun-soaked corner of southern Italy, they weren’t chasing a dream so much as answering a call. “We’d had enough of city life,” Rich says. “We wanted something new, something slower.”

Rich’s parents had owned a countryside masseria near Cisternino for 13 yea…

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