Note: there were some audio issues during this recording – for best experience, watch it in YouTube with subtitles.

In this episode, I sit down with Harry to talk about life between cultures — growing up British, spending time in Greece, and living in Italy.

We get into some of the small cultural differences that people don’t always notice until they live here: coffee culture, breakfast habits, drinking culture, food traditions, and the pressure many Italians feel to live up to expectations.

We also talk about work, risk-taking, and why some jobs in Italy struggle to attract workers. It’s not that people don’t want the jobs — often it’s that the pay doesn’t match the cost of living.Food naturally comes up a lot in this conversation. We compare Greek and Italian food culture, why Greek meals tend to revolve around sharing plates while Italian meals are more structured, and why Italian cuisine has such an incredible amount of regional variety.

We also talk about the Mediterranean diet — why it can be incredibly healthy, and how it can quickly stop being healthy if you’re doing aperitivo, taglieri, pizza, and two bottles of wine every night.