Amy came to Southern Italy via Germany teaching English as she went.  She now runs one of the most popular expat Brit blogs online. Find out about her life in Puglia here.

I’d often heard that the best way to learn about a country’s culture and language was to go live there. So, from the moment that Italy first eked out a place in my heart when I was 15, I planned to one day return there and live. However, the transient life of a foreign exchange student didn’t do it for me. I wanted to feel like a local. I wanted to be Italian. So I enrolled in an internship program for a summer then convinced the tour company where I interned in Tuscany to hire me back the following year.

Steve and Linda left their home in the USA for Italy in the very late 1990′s. They now own a hotel in Rome and a Europe wide B&B agency, read about their expat experiences here.