It's not unusual to visit a new place on holiday, like it and
dream about living there. You may even plan to return there for your
next year's holiday. But sometimes a country takes a hold of you. You
not only dream about it - you read about it, listen to its music, learn
its language, eat its food - you find yourself living and breathing it
and you're desperate to get back there.
Italian culture and traditions can be like that. One day you're enjoying the culture of Italy on holiday, the next you're back home, wondering how you can become an Italian citizen. And although it might not be possible to do that legally, it's not hard to adopt Italian culture into your everyday life.
That's what happened to us. One moment we were in Rome on holiday, the next we had bought a home in the hills of Le Marche and wanted the whole of our lives to be Italian-themed. It's not taken long. We're now bona fide residents of a tiny Italian village and consider ourselves more Italian than English.
Here's our list of ten fun ways that made us realise we'd really adopted Italian culture and traditions into our lives. Recognise yourself in at least five of them? Watch out - you're well on your way to becoming a true Italophile!
You know you are Italian when...
1. You stop drinking cappuccino after 10.30 in the morning.
2. Your pride and joy is no longer your kettle, but your Gaggia coffee machine.
3. A flock of goats complete with goatherd appears in your garden and you don't think anything of it.
4. You find yourself downloading the Italian national anthem to your i-pod.
5. Your bidet has become an essential household item.
6. You walk arm in arm with your women friends round the local clothes market - sixteen times.
7. A man wanders through your land armed with a shotgun and accompanied by a large dog, and you offer him an early morning espresso.
8. There's a pasta machine all floury with use on your kitchen work-surface.
9. You go to buy a train ticket in the UK and realise the man's looking at you blankly because you asked for it in Italian.
10. Your partner offers to buy you a pair of Jimmy Choo's and you tell him you'd rather have a Vespa.
Italian culture and traditions can be like that. One day you're enjoying the culture of Italy on holiday, the next you're back home, wondering how you can become an Italian citizen. And although it might not be possible to do that legally, it's not hard to adopt Italian culture into your everyday life.
That's what happened to us. One moment we were in Rome on holiday, the next we had bought a home in the hills of Le Marche and wanted the whole of our lives to be Italian-themed. It's not taken long. We're now bona fide residents of a tiny Italian village and consider ourselves more Italian than English.
Here's our list of ten fun ways that made us realise we'd really adopted Italian culture and traditions into our lives. Recognise yourself in at least five of them? Watch out - you're well on your way to becoming a true Italophile!
You know you are Italian when...
1. You stop drinking cappuccino after 10.30 in the morning.
2. Your pride and joy is no longer your kettle, but your Gaggia coffee machine.
3. A flock of goats complete with goatherd appears in your garden and you don't think anything of it.
4. You find yourself downloading the Italian national anthem to your i-pod.
5. Your bidet has become an essential household item.
6. You walk arm in arm with your women friends round the local clothes market - sixteen times.
7. A man wanders through your land armed with a shotgun and accompanied by a large dog, and you offer him an early morning espresso.
8. There's a pasta machine all floury with use on your kitchen work-surface.
9. You go to buy a train ticket in the UK and realise the man's looking at you blankly because you asked for it in Italian.
10. Your partner offers to buy you a pair of Jimmy Choo's and you tell him you'd rather have a Vespa.
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