Before we went to Italy I was looking forward to it immensely. I had been planning an Italian road trip for months and I couldn’t wait to start visiting and eating my way through this beautiful country. Now I’ve come back I feel like I’ve left a little part of me there and I am itching to go back. We went to lots of different regions and the way of life is so different in all of them: in Ferrara (Emilia Romagna) it is all about food; in the Amalfi Coast (Campania) dressing well came hand in hand with rushing around; Montepulciano (Tuscany) oozed a relaxed way of life, excellent wine and any excuse to socialise; Venice (and the Veneto) was home to the friendliest, most generous and bustling city I’ve ever been to.