My husband is Neapolitan. He has been biologically programmed to drive like a maniac.

It had always puzzled me why Chinese food in Italy was so, to put it bluntly, abysmal.

I am still smarting from the time I bought figs ("fichi") and got the gender wrong.

Do they have to start work — yelling, crashing and banging — so early in the morning?

My husband-to-be was Catholic, and I was Anglican.

"But why do you English people drink so much?"

These days, everyone’s also a nerd. Am I missing something?

The number of Venetians living in Venice is dwindling fast.

Of course British people have sex. In fact, we rather like it.

These days, it's hard to manage without someone to help if you work and have children.