Taki Taki

Perfect peace

Broadsides from the pirate captain of the Jet Set

issue 25 March 2006

Gstaad

The end of another perfect season where skiing is concerned. Wonderful powder snow, beautiful sunshine, plunging temperatures at night and empty slopes once the glitzy types went back to whatever holes they came from. On my son’s last day here, he and I skied recklessly fast together (I couldn’t keep up) and late in the afternoon we were the last two on the mountain.

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