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High life

Wild flowers and mountain peaks are no substitute for a pretty woman

1 September 2018

9:00 AM

1 September 2018

9:00 AM

Gstaad

The pastoral heaven of this place can get very dull during the summer months. Green hillsides, neat farmsteads, pleasing breezes, meadows bright with wild flowers amid white-capped mountain peaks; these are no substitute for pretty women or intellectual company. That is the bad news. The good news is that the nouveaux riches and terribly vulgar do not appear during the summer.

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