The promenade at Rimini – Friday 11 April 2014. The wind was blowing up dusty sand from the beach while the hotel staff were beginning to open up their beach chalets for the summer season, newly-painted benches being wheelbarrowed across the road in one direction, and heavy weights – used to hold things down a bit in the winter – wheelbarrowed in the other.
And we pondered on how Rimini was perhaps the first overseas package destination for British tourists in the 1950s or early 60s, and how we are fairly sure it still does feature in some British holiday brochures, and how it is now heavily frequented by Russians; most tourist signs are in Italian, English and Russian, and whether all those hotels can really fill up in summer, maybe they do during August, and how awful it all is really, though the old town of Rimini is actually very attractive.
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