Remember Jerry that this is the hottest, most crowded time of the year - especially hot this August & now that people are free to go out again they will, plus many in the hospitality industry weren't sure if tourists would come back anyway so they are probably stretched to the limit at the mo' so these 10/15 days are testing everyone's patience ! Ice, ice & more ice.....they often deliver sacks of it but maybe the deliveries are on holiday too
@Plinlyn Torquay I can only imagine the sense of loneliness to be exiled (even luxuriously) without your loved one at the most emotional time of the year & somehow being comforted by familiar images & atmosphere that K rustled up. Glad she answered you - I assume you were still a high tier Patreon? As that wily politician Andreotti said "pensare male degli altri si fa peccato ma spesso si indovina" if you get my meaning....
Re latest vlog - I immediately thought of Nigella when I watched it & wanted to post the ending of her cookery shows where she ALWAYS had a table full of friends eating & enjoying what she had cooked = food as conviviality. Here we just saw elderly hands & arms & disembodied voices - again a con to fool us about having friends, sorry girl friends. Btw Nigella is in another league with both beauty AND brains, an Oxford grad, father ex- Chancellor of the Exchequer etc & not without her share of family tragedy but still a hard worker, and just getting on with her life. And no, I'm not her friend but wish I was.
Just one more thing from old post, still catching up, about her clothes in the trip to the PO - so perfect in her bourgeois role as Rena Solomon explained about images and Kylie is certainly about her image projected to the world at whatever cost. No sloppy jeans & hoodie for her as future Signora Talli G**# Gā¬ā¬# .
Just remembered another thing - in the Ballo dei Whatever, sponsored by a jewellery company, Guido's partner was a girl from a very illustrious family, della Gherardesca, descended from Count Ugolino immortalised in Dante's Divina Commedia & def not in Guido's league. They have adapted to modern day life in different ways - the girl's father having dated Sarah Duchess of York for some time (!) & a cousin Costantino has become a media presence, droll and witty, blowing the whistle on his extended family and their antics on their vast estates trying to keep under the radar. Guido apart from his looks is a non starter in this ambience. (ambience? my English fails me at times)
In a way, I'm fairly chilled about it all. The inability to accept criticism I found galling, especially in my line of work as one thing one is trained to do when writing a PhD thesis and presenting work in the arts and humanities is to be able to accept constructive criticism and to do so gracefully and gratefully in so far as it is the only way one can perfect and improve one's work. Defensiveness was frowned upon. It's hard at first as we're all emotionally invested in our work but it becomes easier with practice. A bit like having all of those PCR tests in Paris one becomes desensitized. 
Are these people "connected" with your property manager's list of businesses to be used?
& not pervy -Riccardo Muti for example .
