Observer, 10 October 2004
Our
room with a view eases birthday blues
 ...
A brief but violent application of reverse thrust brought us to a halt
at a discreet landing stage, from whose marbled hinterland emerged
the neat and gracious figure of Rosanna Gianotti. 'Welcome to Palazzetto
Salvioni,'
she whispered, helping us ashore and directly into a frescoed Renaissance
hall of dumbfounding majesty. Even Connery in his nonchalant pomp would
have been hard-pressed to muster the sang-froid demanded by this abrupt
transition from aquatic insanity to hushed and gilded opulence; brine-spattered,
wild-haired and glass-limbed, we could only gawp and grunt our incoherent
awe. Overwhelmed by our Venetian home already, and this was only the
porch.
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