How lovely to wake up without tobacco smoke. Although there is still a strong whiff of it through all of my clothes. I'm sure the hotel staff must think I am smoking surreptitiously in my room.
A restful nights sleep and then a shower. Discovered a couple of little problems. One shower door is missing a couple of hanger things for the top rail so it has to be lifted into position (reported). And, maybe because of this or because I was using the non-slip mat, I managed to flood the bathroom floor. Good job that there were plenty of towels but, because I had put the bath towel on the floor near enough to pick up I had to dry myself with a hand towel.
My tariff does not, strictly speaking, include breakfast but they gave it to me gratis anyway. Fronted up to the breakfast room where most of the guests seem to be elderly Germans who dress for breakfast. The breakfast room Nazi (or should that be Fascist) told me off for sitting down at a table that had been used and not re-prepared. As if I gave a hoot - all I wanted was somewhere to park my arse and eat some muesli and whatever.
After breakfast I walked to the studio by a different route and again arrived early but Enrica doesn't mind. Finished off the piece I worked on yesterday and started on another frieze but with a slightly bigger profile. Since I had arrived early I suggested to Enrica that we kept going until 1:30pm (4.5 hours) and then call it quits for the day, rather than break for lunch and then go back. Daria only does 2.5 hours so knocks off earlier anyway.
When we finished up I had a slow slow through the streets just generally heading in the right direction. Bought a panino along the way and munched as I walked. I will probably go out for another walk later and perhaps get a gelato. And the, later on, dinner. Yesterday I had breakfast at the apartment and a pizza for lunch so I didn't need dinner but today I am trying to get into a more regular routine.
Question for the day (I am just watching a news item on the kidnappings in Nigeria by Boko Haram): If the Koran forbids the portrayal of the human form (or face?), why do they (Islamists) not have a problem showing their faces on TV?
