To Venice with Love: A Midlife Adventure

About Philip Gwynne Jones

Philip Gwynne Jones was born in South Wales in 1966 and lived and worked throughout Europe before settling in Scotland in the 1990s. He first came to Italy in 1994 when he spent some time working for the European Space Agency in Frascati a job that proved to be less exciting than he had imagined. He spent twenty years in the IT industry before realising he was congenitally unsuited to it. Furthermore an attempt to find a secure well-paid job with a proper pension had resulted in him finding himself in the IT department of a large Scottish bank during the global financial crisis. Something clearly had to change. And so it was that - following a conversation with a man in a pub - Philip and Caroline left their jobs sold their flat and moved to Venice in search of a better simpler future. They were wrong about the 'simpler' bit . . . Philip now works as a teacher writer and translator and lives in Venice with Caroline. He enjoys cooking art classical music and opera; and can occasionally be seen and heard singing bass with Cantori Veneziani and the Ensemble Vocale di Venezia.