After a long period in New Zealand and a few months working from home, today I started working in Italy again.
I spent the last 3 "sabbatical" weeks doing almost nothing related to programming or IT in general: I went climbing, I took David Silverlight around Milano and took him climbing as well, and also started going on bicycle again after I had a bad injury ten years ago.
Too early to give an opinion (today I just filled forms and installed my laptop), but it seems to be a nice place to work: I even found out that a colleague lives only 20 meters from my house, but I never seen before.