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The hazards of being
the wife of an ambassador

Wherever you go in your role as you are smeared with stuff, encased with mud and ploughing across
appendage to the Great Man Doing in mud, pummelled, pushed into heavy mineralised water in a hot
Something Important, there are all smelly pools and virtually marina- pool half the day deluding oneself
too frequently chaps with cameras ted in tisane. it is making any difference at all to
angling for the best shot. Or in my one's physical ailments. But then I
case, for the least worst shot. And And there's another problem. Be- am not a believer and get far more
not one of them seems to have heard fore, during and immediately after satisfaction going for a brisk walk or
about "Photoshop and the Art of any kind of therapy or relaxation, a gallop through the woods. Each to
Erasing Wrinkles". you are encouraged to drink gal- his own, I say, and doing an impres-
lons of tisane. There are giant urns sion of walking on the moon in a
So we took ourselves off to a Spa. and freebie teabags in every cor- plastic shower cap, immersed up to
ner. In the end it seems rude to the neck in hot water whilst it is vir-
We chose it carefully. Location is of ignore them, so you spend most of tually snowing on my head did sod
prime importance if you are to reap the day walking around clutching all for my already rheumatic neck.
the full benefits of a Spa. It must be a hot steaming mug with one hand
situated in an area which is renow- and a rebellious bath robe with the Could it really be just a con? The
ned for its cuisine, its vineyards, its other. I am none too sure just how power of auto-suggestion convin-
picturesque scenery and the quality this is supposed to make you feel cing you that with all that you are
of its bath robes. You are going to better about yourself, but by the end paying for the privilege it must be
spend an awful amount of time in of our stay, far from being relaxed, doing you good? In the end, the Em-
those towelling bath robes, so an I was a nervous wreck scared to go peror of the famous fairy story was
establishment which recognises that anywhere further than 3 metres revealed to have been wearing no
we are not all chronically obese 7ft from the nearest bathroom. clothes at all.
tall giants or terminally anorexic
midgets is a must. Clutching gaping Another complete waste of daylight Not even an ill-fitting towelling
bits of towelling does not assist the hours, as I see it, is being smeared bath robe. If
relaxation process one little bit and
relaxation is what it is all about, as
far as I could fathom. PUBLICITE

I myself am, I concede, complete FRANAIS - ALLEMAND - ANGLAIS - ITALIEN - ESPAGNOL - CHNOIS
rubbish at relaxation. It seems to me
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just staggered out of bed and into SCHWYZERDUTSCH Diplôme de Secretariat & Assistante de Direction
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