Warning: if you take a sizeable holiday this summer, make sure you give yourself a full two-week buffer to ease back into the rhythm of whatever constitutes your daily grind. Better yet, why not turn the whole summer into a working holiday?

After a brief dip into Milan’s men’s fashion shows recently, I escaped the mugginess of the city and went for a real dip in Lake Como on Wednesday evening. On Thursday morning I fled Italy for the football semi-final in Vienna and dropped back into London on Friday afternoon for a quick tour of the office before boarding a flight to Stockholm for a weekend in the archipelago.