Prussiens

Before trading Switzerland for London in the swinging 60s (and subsequently Canada, where I was born) my mother studied hotel management in Zurich.

When it came time to work in the industry, she did what many young hospitality workers did, and spent her winter in Zermatt and summer in Ascona, in sunny Ticino.

She still talks about her time under the snowy Matterhorn working at the front desk of a hotel. There were the Japanese tourists who left decorative envelopes filled wi