Help, first time in Italy! Anyone around to advise what to pack re me DH and dd4 and ds2. We have never been before,.. Any ideas as to whether to pack shorts and jumpers for the evening. Or am I being overenthusiastic in the search for sun? All advice greatly appreciated :)
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To not know what to pack for south of Italy the half term...,
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Whowhoareyou · 20/10/2015 21:55
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Donotknowhownottomind ·
21/10/2015 05:42
Hi OP
My Dad lives in Rome and told me it was 20 degrees the other day. I think it's light jacket in the morning and evening kind of weather as chillier then, but what you would wear during the summer in England during the day. Sorry that was a bit convoluted.
Hope you have a great time 
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Donotknowhownottomind ·
21/10/2015 09:38
Italians have already done their so-called "change of season" and got all their winter woollies out 
Bless 'em. They are also fixated with drafts giving them colds and therefore covering their necks in temperatures that we would think of as a good English summer.
Disclaimer: am allowed to say this as my Mum was Italian though she wasn't temperature sensitive in the same way. My Dad now lives in Rome with his new Italian partner and she refuses to come to London ever it looks like, on the basis of it not being warm or dry enough 
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Second disclaimer: I appreciate that not all Italians are like this and see loads living and working in London.
ThenLaterWhenItGotDark ·
21/10/2015 10:27
Donotknow As I (literally) paddled out of school with water up to my ankles yesterday, I attempted for the nth time to tell them it rains MORE in Italy than it does in the UK. I have shown them rainfall statistics but they still won't have it.
Donotknowhownottomind ·
21/10/2015 11:20
I didn't know that then. Hmm, might have to share this information with my Dad's partner!
The other favourite saying which used to make us (including my Mum) 
when we were growing up was: "Da voi il sole e' come la luna, si vede ma non si sente!" (In your country the sun is like the moon, you can see it but you can't feel it.)
Anyway sorry, not the point of the thread!
Donotknowhownottomind ·
21/10/2015 11:30
Re. the extra clothing limited I sometimes wonder if people from hotter climates, either through genetics or experience, feel the cold differently? How can anybody feel cold when it's 20 degrees however ? It's not as if they think the summer heatwaves are normal heat as they hate them (or at least my relatives do, especially this summer which was awful).
My h is Indian and he is always cold as well so maybe we are just hardier Northern European types!
limitedperiodonly ·
21/10/2015 12:06
Donotknowhownottomind The first time I went to Italy was Rome in an April and it was hot. I wore t-shirts and shorts and I got sunburnt - not badly, it was a sting on the back of the neck which I'd forgotten to put suncream on.
It was 1981 and all the women were wearing navy skirt suits and scarlet tights. It would have been far too hot for tights let alone a jacket at home. The men - teens and 20s - were all wearing shiny Sergio Tacchini tracksuits with detachable lower legs. Not that they removed them, or the jackets which were firmly zipped up. Some of them who chatted to us appeared not to be wearing underpants though 
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I was in Eqypt in a September and it was hotter than hell - particularly in Aswan in the south. We were wilting but the Italians were skipping about.
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