Have a (hot?) Halloween!

Buongiorno a tutti!

This Brit is now back from being a curator for the Twitter account @I_am_Italy. What an amazing experience it was to be in touch with and reach out to so many people about what it feels like to live in Italy, and what Italy means to me. I tweeted a lot about the wonderful region where I live, Puglia, and of course, Italian food was a big topic of conversation. No surprises there! :D

But now your blogger has returned. What's new in Italy? I hear you ask. Well, dear readers, it seems as though the Autumn is yet to take my little southern town in its grasp. During the late morning and afternoon, you would be forgiven for thinking that we were still in August, as temperatures have been reaching 30 degrees C. However, everyone here is just waiting for the day where it all changes....from summer to winter in one fell swoop. We will go from wearing a t-shirt to a heavy jacket in the space of 24 hours. So I'm enjoying these last drops of sunshine while I can...

In other news, it is of course Halloween, so I will leave you all with the trailer for the classic 1977 Italian horror film Suspiria by Dario Argento (in both Italian and English).....have a good one!!

Happy Halloween from Italy!

Hello everyone. I hope you all have some suitably spooky plans for this evening?

We have been doing special Halloween lessons with the youngsters in these last couple of days. Do you think my look was suitably scary?!

The teeth were actually so uncomfortable I could only leave them in for 5 minutes at a time. Should have gone for a witches hat.

 If you haven't kept up with my tweets (@BritInItaly!) then here's another reminder to check out my horror story on the Displaced Nation website.

check out my story here!

 And finally, my long weekend starts tomorrow! We have decided to take a trip to Pisa and Florence, so expect a write up and pictures upon my return. The weather up there is really  bad at the moment, so hopefully it won't ruin our plans too much. As we'll have to get up fairly early in the morning, I don't have a Halloween rave planned for tonight, but I do fancy getting all cosy and scaring the beejesus out of myself with this classic Italian horror film:

Go on...watch the trailer here....