Expat Life in Italy: The Three Fs of Italy

This article by Wendy Olsen originally appeared in the March 2016 issue of Dream of Italy. Updated 2018. I awoke a few months after arriving in Milan, finally in my own appartamento.  The muggy morning heat was smothering. I was relishing my 10 minutes lying in bed, encapsulated in my 700-count cotton thread, Missoni sheets. My future mother-in-law had ironed my…