Just back: under the spell of 007 in Italy We pause in Malcesine, infamous for having imprisoned Goethe, and next morning head north, to Trento, centre of the Counter Reformation. We explore the Castello del Buonconsiglio, where Cesare Battisti, an irredentist journalist and politician, was garrotted and hanged, having been captured by the Austrians on July 10 1916. He would have loved the Lancia, and I glimpse him in the back seat as we surge away from the fortress, a rope trailing from the battlements. For a moment I become 007, and the engine growls through the double chevrons on the map. Reaching the pass, I spin to a halt with a handbrake turn and dive for my Beretta, but the Merc is beaten and it explodes in a ball of flame, destroying a ski lift and hotel complex. I step away, light a Sobrani, and admire the peaks. It's then all downhill; we fall 1,200 metres (1.2km) in 15 minutes to reach the gorge to Agordo, bounded by precipices and a torrent. Trucks rumble along and contadini struggle to hit 40 miles per hour. I have to pass them; my business is of the utmost importance. The Delta stalks the opposition until it pounces and devours its prey. Even in fifth gear there is power to overtake dawdlers at 60 miles per hour; then I ease into sixth, touching 75. Through Belluno, Feltre, on toward Vicenza. I feel at one with the car. I am not going to want to give it back; I want to carry on, to Rome, or over the Alps. Could I get away with it? We return to Verona. I pilot the machine through traffic, stop to climb the Torre dei Lamberti (368 steps), have gnocchi asparagi at the Trattoria Portichetti, near San Zeno, then put my foot down for the airport. We hit the runway at 105 miles per hour, accelerating, the nose comes up, and we are airborne, turning steeply towards Lake Garda, the Alps and heaven. I sing "Addio, mia bella, addio!" as Nicola waves his papers at us... Email your entry of no more than 500 words (with the text in the email itself rather than attached) to justback@telegraph.co.uk by midnight on Wednesday, May 2.