Stuart Reid

King of the hill

The joy of renting an apartment in Rome

issue 30 June 2007

‘Look at this,’ I said. ‘“Key management”. What’s that all about?’ My wife winced. ‘I suppose it’s about key management,’ she said, and immediately returned to her book.

We were halfway to Rome and I was reading the user manual for the apartment we had taken for the weekend. It ran to 11,652 words and was beginning to do my head in.

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