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possible to create links through these Council, perhaps more Swiss will in the
Carrefour International round tables? future be more interested in what the
various UN organizations do. Carrefour
From my contacts and experience in the International may provide a means for
past 50 years, I found that few Swiss the retired Swiss to learn more about the
took any interest in international UN. We need to attract a younger
organizations. Now that Switzerland is a audience.
member of the UN and the Security
THE CIRCLE IS COMPLETE
By Eugénia SANTOS
In the last issue of the magazine, I read a great day as I had never climbed to
an article that I found very interesting, such an altitude before. I had seen the
about a trip to the Aletsch glacier (a snow in Portugal, at Serra da Estrela
region I know very well). (Star Mountain), which isn't even 2,000
meters high. My body did not
I had once written an account of a trip to appreciate climbing so high and I
the Mürren-Schilthorn, that I thought suddenly, became very ill, with thoughts
might be interesting reading to publish. of dying. I couldn't enjoy it. In a nutshell,
I'm sending it to you here, along with a a day to be forgotten.
photo of me up there!
When I started to get to know
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Switzerland better, I finally realised that
I arrived (with my husband) in Geneva in our friends' idea was an excellent one,
November 1976. The following summer, as it had been in s the Jungfrau region,
a couple of friends wanted to show us perhaps the most beautiful part of the
the real Switzerland: the mountains. So, Swiss Alps. So I decided to go there
one Sunday, we travelled many myself, at least once.
kilometres, as far as cars were I often spend a few days in the
permitted, before taking a cable car. We mountains. I love the natural beauty of
travelled there and back in a single day, the Alps, the silence, and the typical
climbing to an altitude of 3,000 meters, charm of remote villages. However,
seeing the extraordinary mountain during the two years of the pandemic, I
peaks of this country and eating in a didn't go to the mountains at all. I
revolving restaurant (that took45 missed it. Especially as winter is a time
minutes to go all the way around) of year when the fog and grey days
whilst we eat seeing different peaks all make Geneva inhospitable; it's too cold
the time.
and going out sometimes even makes
Incredible things that I had never seen my body ache, whereas it's often less
before. However, for me it wasn't really cold in the mountains, the cold is drier
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