The summer before his daughter was born Peter returned to Italy to ride through the sunny parts of Italy on a Vespa the same colour as Donatella Versace, a bright orange 1972 Rally 200 with white go-fast stripes.

The journey was a last two-stroke fling before fatherhood and took him through Sardinia, Sicily and the Amalfi Coast. If the trip that became Vroom with a View was like an old B&W movie, this one was in Technicolor.

Peter christened the Vespa Marcello. He was a hairy-chested, gold medallion wearing kind of Vespa and the Italians loved him. Everywhere he went he elicited free beer from barmen, swoons from young women and beeps and whistles from other drivers.

And just like Sophia he introduced Peter to a side of Italy – and Italians – that most tourists don’t get to see.