The One Day Holiday

Stessa spiaggia stessa mare

Alberoni beach has changed not a whit since Visconti shot Death in Venice there. Same shabby blue bathing cabins, same faded umbrellas, possibly the same elderly ladies gravely playing cards and commenting on the heat. There’s a ritual to Italian beach life which the English have never developed- whether you’re in Rimini or Rapallo there will be regimen…