CLARE FLYNN

There are places that stay in your head long after you leave them. For me, Italy is one of those places. I first visited Italy when, aged seventeen, I went all over Europe for the first time, on a one-month InterRail holiday with friends after A Levels. Somehow I lived for a month on less than £50. I fell head over heels in love with the country and that has never left me. I was fortunate enough to live in Milan in the 1990s, working, learning the language, and getting to kno