![]() ![]() The Cavour is the Italian navy’s shining light and the jewel in the country’s technological crown, with enough fire power to destroy anything conceived of on this planet. To get to it, I have to turn left at the AB-212 helicopter, past the SCLAR H anti-missile rocket launcher, through an air-tight hatch in the floor and down the near-vertical steps, past an array of sinister gauges, back up a couple of floors in a hermetic lift, then down another blindingly well-lit corridor. The room itself is a design exercise in space efficiency, like the result of an Ikea competition to see who can squeeze an entire house into the en suite bathroom of a Days Hotel. Titanic-like "women and children first" abandonment. Really though, we're under strict instructions not to use the shower for too long, because the steam can upset the smoke alarms, which presumably will lead to a Apparently, the sequence of letters and numbers on the little blue key fob we're given in the "lobby" is a genuine reference for the military, so they know where to come and rescue us should the worst happen – you know, if the maids haven't put enough tea bags near the kettle, something like that. ![]()
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