It’s been a while since Pa’s trip to Milan – taking across the Francis Bacon Triptych (on loan from the NGA to the Palazzo Reale for its current show) - but it took a bit of faffing around before we managed to retrieve the potted slide-show from his camera…
What a lovely time he had, particularly in the cargo plane on the way over – real boys-own-annual-stuff; sitting with the pilots, or kipping in the roomy cabin, or rustling up a sanger in the galley… Oh yes, there were a couple of dreary stop-’n-drops in Honkers and Manchester, but then it was off to Milan where even the Caribinieri are suitably foppish. And then he flew back first class on Emirates which was a tragic waste of all that bubbly, dahlings - because, of course, he doesn’t partake!
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