Vacation blow but not only. After the June and July drubbing, the August one is about to come. A blazing summer on the price front. The National Consumers Union processed the Istat inflation data for August released in recent days to compile the top 30 price hikes, on an annual basis. For the annual top 30, in first place is sugar with a 43.3 percent increase over August 2022. In second place is olive oil with a 37.1 percent increase. Bronze medal for potatoes rising 25.9%. In fourth place are tomatoes with +25.3%, then rice and fennel, carrots and onions ex aequo with +23.6%, in seventh place domestic flights taking off by 22% and being the first non-food item and on vacations. This is followed by apricots and plums (+21.9%), cabbage (+20.5%). Oranges (+18.4 percent) close the top ten. Then national package vacations (12th, +17%), melons and watermelons and ice cream ex aequo in sixteenth place with +15.5%, preserved milk (19th, +15%), baby food rising 14.7% (21st place), packaged bread (26th, +13%), hotels and motels (29th, +12.9%) are noted.