Eat a tipical apulian dish! You don't know what you are missing if you haven't never eat an apulian dish...I tell you: "What a pity!". Anyway I will try to let you taste a tipical apulian dish, that is "Le orecchiette con le cime di rapa" (the translation could be "Little ears with the turnips"). Do you remember that I told you that in Puglia smells and colors are mixed together? Well, also in our dishes colors, smells and tastes are mixed together. Let's start from the orecchiette. They are a tipical apulian pasta, that look like little derby hats and usually they are made by hands using the thumb to give the tipical shape, but it's possible to buy them in the market. The turnips cleaned, you have to boil them and in the same water you have to cook the orecchiette then you have to drain together. While orecchiette and turnips cook, you have to let a piece of garlic fry and a bit of hot pepper and, if you want, some anchovy and add all together. In the end you have to add also some pieces of little smell tomatoes. This dish is very patriotic because the colors are White, red and green like my flag and I dedicate it to today that is April 25th (The freedom day). A presto, Rita :)

Come to Puglia Have you ever seen a countryside of South Italy in summer? I want to describe my Puglia: it's an amazing and beautiful region and in summer it becomes a picture of artist for the several colours that you can see...the sea is blue, the sand is gold, the sky is full of light and its colour changes while the hours go away, but you can find also the country with olive trees or pine trees or other type of trees that arrives to beach or to sea...and so colours and smells are mixed together. The little towns built on promontory of Gargano or in Salento have houses with white walls, that in summer become blinding due to the sun light that hits them. The little towns have tight streets that preserve you from high temperature where you can see white bedclothes hanghing over balconies. I love my Puglia, I love Italy! On next note I will write about good apulian dishes ;)

A singular day Hi Italki people, I'm Rita. I would like to learn English, above all spoken. I want to talk about what happened today morning in my little town. It was very hot and it's strange in this time of year. LIike every day I went to school (I'm a teacher) but in the air there was something of singular...at 11 a.m. I listened to my students shouting because the earth began to move, It was a earthquake! The fear was a lot but here we know it...My little town is near Gargano, "the spur of Italy", and you say that, sonner or later, this part of Italy is going to tear away! Bye Rita