Farns Niente

Follow along with our current trip or explore past adventures. Our blog title is a bastardized portmanteau of our family name, Farnsworth, and Dolce Far Niente, Italian for “The sweet art of doing nothing”. So this is us getting very accomplished at wasting our time having fun.

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2025: Australia | Europe | Africa

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  • Grenoble. Going, going, gone.
    The third holiday this month to cause most businesses to be closed – in this case Ascencion. That, plus intermittent rain, gave us a good excuse to be productive. I exercised and we did a load of wash in the hotel laundry room then (with a good bit of difficulty) returned our rental car at the train station. Spent some time looking for high protein, very low sugar snack bars. It was difficult as 23 grams of sugar per serving is considered “low”! Back to the room to chill then dinner at our hotel listening to the live Afro-pop music from the bar.


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