Italy - A country of excesses!

Mad parking!

When parking DO find a convenient bend1  It's so much fun!

Cake !

Cakes for breakfast, coffee, tea!  Large cakes, small cakes, cakes with nuts, lots with nutella,  huge meringues.  They all look very tempting but...........well, you need to try them because they just don't taste as you expect them to and lots of English folk are not too keen.    Hubby loves the gooey layered ones with chocolate cream and and the spongy ones with the red liqueur.  Its not fair for me to comment cause I don't really like cake anyway! 

Chocolate!

Italians love chocolate in and with everything!  Chocolate cakes, rich chocolate ice-cream, gooey thick hot chocolate drinks, chocolate sauce drizzled over melon (yuck!)  If you like chocolate too then do visit one of the chocolate festivals.  There is a good one at Perugia.

Crafts and art - in every city town and tiny village you will find art and craft displays and will be able to see real artists and craftsmen at work.  This a wood-carver's workshop in Assisi.  Hence the huge Pinocchio!

Sockets and plugs - there are so many different kinds!"  In our house we have four different types of sockets -  there are two pin narrow and two pin small, three pin large and three pin small and so it goes on so when you also need UK adaptors it gets quite tricky!

Excess of food!
These pizzas are standard fare at Citta della Domenica and  very good,  very cheap and provide you with another meal tomorrow!

Festivals!  Everywhere!
You would easily attend one a day in the months of July and August.
They celebrate everything!  Peaches, Fish, Tomatoes, melons.......

Kittens!  
These sweet little chaps were lucky - they had a good home (with 9 more!) But there are lots and lots of strays. 

Motorbikes and scooters!
These were OK but there are alot of these with  noisy exhausts which just make you so mad at 1am!




I could think of lots and lots more .....  sunshine!  wonderful people!  fantastic views, olive groves, Cyprus trees....the list is endless!