Spring shopping break

I've been taking a bit of a break this week. I've been blogging twice a week since late 2020 but not so far this month as there's been so little to talk about. Yesterday, though, I made some additions to my wardrobe.

Covid is still around but I think we've all had enough now and there's an obvious shift in attitude from authorities all over the world despite the high rate of infections. Besides, spring has come early. So yesterday I went out and treated myself to lunch at a restaurant near the old fort in Sanremo. Nice, imaginative fish dishes. They seem to specialise in angler fish -  hideously ugly creatures, but very good eating.

I took a stroll round the wide harbour in the sunshine and came across this super yacht:

 

Laid down in 1979, very much in the style of its era, it is now called Kingdom 5KR and has been through various owners and names. It was commissioned from the shipyards down the coast at Viareggio by Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi who called it Nabila after his daughter. It was used in the Bond film Never Say Never Again as the villain's yacht (the "Flying Saucer") and inspired the song by rock group Queen. Khashoggi then sold it to the Sultan of Brunei who, in turn, sold it to Donald Trump who renamed it the Trump Princess (ugh!) and turned it into a loss-making floating casino. In characteristic fashion, the author of The Art of the Deal sold it at a further loss to its current owner, a Saudi prince. Once considered an amazing yacht, it seems to be gathering dust in the private berths next to other mega yachts registered in tax havens. In a week that sees Prince Andrew paying off a women he claims he never met, trafficked as a teenager by Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of a bullying media mogul who died just after embezzling his staff's pension fund by 'falling' off the yacht he'd named Lady Ghislaine after his twisted daughter, you do wonder about the people we allow to lord it over us in these kinds of luxury vessels.

 

Anyway, after this reflection, my hard-earned, taxed dollars went to buy several items in a local store. Three pairs of women's trousers, two tops and a cute belt. I know they're not ultra-feminine and are all black, but the point is I now dress in women's clothes pretty much all the time and need something androgynous and not too bright when out but not presenting obviously female. This works for me at the moment.

 

I had to guess at my new size since I've lost so much weight this last year but I'm pleased to say it got it just right and they fit perfectly. I tend to like something quite fitted/skinny. So I'm pleased with these. I will need a summer frock soon but my loveliest dresses are still in storage in England and I haven't been able to get there for over 2 years. I'm planning a rescue trip later this spring.

Sue x