The Daily Express
Virginia Blackburn said there is one particular pleasure we have been denied over the past year - that of hotels.
“There is something about staying in one that nothing else can match,” she said. “It’s the sense that you could be anyone in a hotel, they still can’t be totally sure you are who you say you are.”
She said some hotels such as the Gritti Palace in Venice are destinations in their own right.
“The actor Richard Harris lived in one of the most glamorous hotels in the world,” she added. “The Savoy in London, and it was there that he, too, began his last journey and had to be taken out through the foyer on a stretcher. Fellow guests goggled and Harris managed one last carouse. He hoisted himself up. “It’s the food!” he cried.