I stayed at the real White Lotus hotel in Sicily – and it is spookily similar to the show

The gardens at the San Domenico Palace are scented by 40 different types of lemon tree

(Picture: Evening Standard)

I’m lying by the pool at a five-star hotel in Sicily, November sun somehow still 10 times warmer than London has been in months, sipping on a cocktail made of I don’t know what, because it was just handed to me and I didn’t bother to ask. Mount Etna looms above me, judging: who does this girl think she is? A character from The White Lotus?

Actually, that’s exactly what I am. Because I’ve gone to San Domenico Palace, the real-life home of The White Lotus season two, and I’m living as close to an HBO budget as life can get.