By now we have been living in Lecce for more than 4 months. Still love it here! We have experienced a lot of new and even strange things here. Also, just some funny moments. So here is a list of some examples: Our first visit to the supermarket After 4 days of living here, we finally had time to find a supermarket. We had been dreaming about having coffee at home, because it became quite expensive to buy a caffè every morning from the bar. We heard that the best coffee to buy was "Quarta", but in Lidl they don't sell it. So after staring at the coffee section for some minutes we decided to ask a guy who was working there. Tairi: "Cuale cafe buonissimo?" - it was my very first try to speak italian, so it is not grammatically or probably any way correct, but I meant - Which one is a very good coffee? So the guy looks at me and says (with a very excited and loud voice) "Io sono buonissimo!" - I am very good. At this moment we found ourselves laughing hysterically while being shocked at the same time. Afterwards he helped us to find a nice coffee to buy. Snow in South-Italy What a scene! One day in the beginning of January it started to snow. Of course it was a shock for us. I (T.) came from very north and was expecting a nice "warm" winter here, but then the white stuff started to fall down the sky. Anyway, it was not a huge problem for us, because we were ill during that period, so we didn't have the chance to go out. But it was a blast to watch the reaction of the locals. They closed the universities, schools and kindergartens, because it was too cold. Imagine my reaction when I checked that it was -2 degrees. In Estonia you are not obliged to go to school when it is -20 or more (this doesn't apply for high school, there you need to go with any kind of weather). The streets were quite empty, because nobody had the winter tyres for cars, so no one was driving. Also a lot of people took holidays from work, because moving from point A to point B was dangerous and impossible. This is an exaggerated description of the situation during the period of snow. Of course there were people who were enjoying the snow and went even skiing. But every time someone asks us, how was the situation with the snow in Lecce, the answer is: "Life in Salento stopped". A custom that we didn't know about One evening during the first week we were sitting outside of a bar in the Historic Centre. We started talking to a local guy and then he proposed a toast and we hit the cups together as people normally do in that case. During this action he turned his hand, so instead of putting the cups together our hands touched. First time we thought it was a mistake, the second and the third time it started to feel creepy. So we got the impression that he was a strange guy who proposed a toast many times just to touch us. After a week or so, the same situation happened when we were making a toast with some friends. While trying to put the cups together, everyone turned their hand and touched us. This time we decided to ask that what was that about. As it came out, it is a custom that when you make a cheers with plastic cups, instead of putting the cups together you put your hands together. Italian washing machine In our apartment we have the luxury to use the washing machine. We put the clothes in, choose a program and turn it on. At first we usually did it before siesta time (around 12.00). The washing machine never finished before 17 o'clock. It was so strange. So one time around 14 o'clock we went to check how was the situation. The machine was stopped, but not finished. Also the next time the situation was the same. And the next time. Slowly we realized that our washing mashine has siesta time. Some moment between 13 and 15 o'clock it stoppes for some hours and continues later.
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