This disastrous "annus horribilis" has taken away another good soul from a Malindi that is less and less Italian and more and more wounded, even in rebound, by the Coronavirus.
Giorgio Di Maira, a 68-year-old entrepreneur from Milan, had his home in Kenya for many seasons, in that splendid garden in the centre of the town which is the Lawfords.  
And from there, for everyone, for the happy brigade of owners and tenants, he was simply Giorgione.
And one becomes Giorgione not by chance, it is not enough to be big and strong, it takes more than that.
You need a smile that is always ready for anyone, a contagious laugh, the desire to be in company and enjoy the pleasures of the good life. It is not for nothing that certain adjectives need to be augmented to convey the idea: companionable, sly, good-tempered.
Giorgione Di Maira was obviously not only this, he was also the good-hearted man who adopted children from a distance in a Children's Home and always had an eye for the less fortunate.
In Italy, he and his brother were the creators of a legendary place for classic and luxury car enthusiasts, the Garage Soderini. His passion for beauty and elegance matched his passion for engines. All you had to do was ask him to tell you about the excitement of the Paris-Dakar in which he had participated, and you could understand everything.
A beautiful person with many, many "ones", dear Giorgio.
And tell all those with just one "one" that the Covid-19 not only exists, but that it can take anyone in a few days and take him away from us forever.
To his wife Rosy and daughter Francesca, with the grandchild he loved so much, the embrace of Freddie and Leni of Malindikenya.net and that of many other Italians and Kenyans who knew him here.