ITALY

Italy is a country we got to know in pieces, with a month each in Puglia, Marche and the Dolomites area. Puglia is the south, with olive groves, whitewashed towns and the sea close by. Marche is the more quiet middle, with rolling hills and a coast that gets far fewer visitors than some other parts of Italy. And the Dolomites are something else again, with jagged peaks, mountain huts and trails. A month in each was long enough to see how different the south, the middle and the mountains are from each other.