Sir Roger Moore told the Sunday Telegraph
that he enjoys the slow pace of life in Switzerland. As do I. One cannot have too much of a snowy peak under a blue sky, any more than one can have too much of Schubert. Looking out from my bedroom window, all I can see are pine forests, rock cliffs and snow, not a bad scene for the winter blues. Yes, Nature has been degraded, with chalets being built ever higher in the mountains, but old N can take it. After a heavy snowfall everything is still, greed takes a back seat, and the only sounds one hears are those of the skis beneath one.
I cross-country ski during the busy month of February, the worst time to be in Gstaad because the ‘chic’ people arrive en masse ready to party. After 55 years as an Eagle club member I am putting my name up for the committee in order to stop the barbarians at the gates.
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