The first weekend of the Italian summer season was spent on the Italian Riviera photographing classic Riva speedboats. It was a fantastic trip, and thank you to the organisers and the Hotel Lido Palace for making my stay such a pleasant one. Keeping up with speedboats and having a platform to photograph from is no mean feat so my thanks must also go to my ‘chauffeur’, Rodolfo Gozzi. Rodolfo has the patience of a saint and ferried me around in the fantastic Invictus (www.nauticabertelli.it) – I could not have had a better pilot.