Firstly I would like to say thank you so much to my (our) Santa, you truly have been incredible.

Now onto the details; whilst being away with work for a few days I received a picture message from my darling husband of our Secret Santa gift box. The box arrived on day one of my trip so the torment continued for a few days. I did in that time (only after spending much time searching various spellings under reddit users) learn that ‘Mittente’ wasn’t the Reddit Alias of our Santa, but actually means ‘Sender’ in Italian.

Anyway, on my return with my shoes still on and barely pausing to give the husband a kiss to say hi we both eagerly sat down to open our gift.

It did take us a little while to open the box, the husband had to give in and allow me to use a multi tool. We opened the box to find it absolutely full to the top with treats (covered in cobwebs! ). At the top was a hand written note, from our Santa explaining what we would find within with an explanation as to what the item was and in some cases where it was from. This happened to be lots and lots of treats from Italy. Apologies in advance for any miss spelling;

*Panettone – We haven’t had a chance to try this just yet

*Pandoro – I’ve got to say so far im on the pandoro side

*Fruits made of almond paste - am I right to assume that almond paste is (or similar to) marzipan? As a child I used to make fruit similar to this out of marzipan.

*Cremini - Soft tasty chocolates, we love them!

*Pastiglie leone - We are currently eating these whilst typing this. The Violet ones are very much like my favorite sweets called Parma violets. But im going to take a guess and say these ones more natural tasting.

*Coated Almonds – Incredible, we were sent two flavors, tiramisu and Zuppa Inglese. These didn’t last long at all.

*Ricciarelli – Cookies made out of almonds, again these really didn’t last long.

*Nougat – The pronunciation sparked a lot of debate both at home and at both of our work places. Half of us pronounce it like Nugget and the other half say Noo-gah. We then moved onto the pronunciation of aubergine

*Adorable pumpkin candle holder with Chocolate balls – We have similar here, however the chocolate from Italy is miles better.

*Marshmallow and Liquorice Lolly

All in all we have decided that we must visit Italy if only for the food, as everything was incredible.

Thank you so much Santa, if you want to try anything from England just let me know!

(p.s sorry santa if your getting lots of emails saying I've updated, im having fun with the formatting)