Friday-Saturday: Crans-Montana
So, with phone calls to friends, the Thommens managed to secure a place to crash at in Crans-Montana this weekend, and arranged so we could see some of the European Masters tournament in Crans-Montana. All in all a very nice experience. Got to see some of the very best in golf, in an exceptionally pretty setting, enjoy good pizza (if with some dire
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It is a lovely place, but not one that I can say I felt particularly comfortable in. I think I would like it best in the summertime without the golf tournament crowds. Wintertime, I simply need better cocktails than what was available in Montana.
Also - it was kind of funny to observe the scensters in the sole pub in Montana. It was all rather Swiss, where the mingling masses completed the coupling by the stroke of midnight exactly.
Last point - was rather nice to see so many blacks owning and running the service business up there. The Italian place we ate at had numerous failures, the pizza was not one of them, and they were being churned out by a really hard-working black woman. I hope she gets the recognition she deserves. Interestingly, at the sole pub in town, one black Briton was the resident doorman, and was overbusy keeping out argumentative Arab youths. Actually, I wondered how many Lebanese had fled to places like this...but I have a hard time imaginging any Lebanese man or woman would have any difficulty getting into any pub or club in the world.
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