{"id":1606,"date":"2011-06-30T14:34:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T21:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2011-06-30T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T21:34:46","slug":"le-sketch-du-jour-hank-the-swiss-manish-man-george-the-former-tennis-instructor-from-lhotel-du-cap-some-menu-descriptions-june-23-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backattheranchwithpaula.com\/coffee\/2011\/06\/le-sketch-du-jour-hank-the-swiss-manish-man-george-the-former-tennis-instructor-from-lhotel-du-cap-some-menu-descriptions-june-23-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"le sketch du jour: Hank, the swiss man’ish man; George, the former tennis instructor from l’h\u00f4tel du Cap; some menu descriptions. June 23, 1980."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alex, from Dottikon, Switzerland.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hilmer, Sweden.<\/p><\/div>\n

Because there are no sketches and no travels within this sketchbook journal entry, \u00a0I’m starting off this post with a good visual of two European men. I have a vivid picture of both Hank and George kind of blended into a very masculine Swiss-French athletic what I thought to be older man. Sometimes he has hair, sometimes he does not. I even get these two men and their names mixed up within this journal entry.<\/p>\n

But, I could not find a picture of a Swiss man doing calisthenics on the internet, so this is where I landed. I started with men in 50s (see below), but then upped it a bit. I had to look in both Sweden and Switzerland dating services to get even close to the look, but basically they’re both nordic or celtic or something, aren’t they? Anyway, I have another young Frenchman I’m going to market along with two bachelor cowboys, so I thought I’d just throw them in the mix. They both are widows and they both are Taurus’s which I thought was interesting.<\/p>\n

Mon. June 23, 1980.<\/strong><\/p>\n

J’ai reveill\u00e9e at sept heures (7:00 am) and went downstairs to run. Hank (the athletic) one was downstairs in gym shorts & tennies kicking around his legs and looking very swiss-man’ish. \u00a0He is very tan with a little hair that is sort of grey-white. \u00a0He stopped his exercising long enough to demander o\u00f9 je vais (ask me where I’m going). \u00a0I told him & asked him about a good 6-mile route (after taking about 5 minutes to figure out 6 miles in kilom\u00e8tres!). \u00a0He drew me a map which was great, although I still l’\u00e9tait perdue (lost it) before I’d even left the Auberge. \u00a0It was drizzly & grey, but still so pretty! \u00a0You can hardly see the Alps because of the fog.<\/p>\n

I returnedd for petit-d\u00e9jeuner (caf\u00e9, et un morceau de pain avec beurre). \u00a0Today I helped in the kitchen, but it is very difficult to understand because<\/p>\n

1) they tease you<\/p>\n

2) they act like they can’t undersatnd if you use the “vous” (formal-what we’re taught to use in school) form to address them.<\/p>\n

Shower after breakfast & now I’m writing. None of the magasins [stores] sont ouverts [open] \u00a0aujourd’hui, so it’s basically a letter-writing-reading day.<\/p>\n

[I think the Geneva trip activated the immediate gratification shopping chemicals. These had been dormant after first part of trip when I was occupied with history, buildings, and sketching. Then again, there were not really architecturally significant buildings I can remember in Morzine. It’s like a resort town].<\/p>\n

For lunch we had this crudit\u00e9s salad thing and …Rabbit (lapin)!! \u00a0[attention Ginna Getto]. \u00a0It was very good-sort of a white meat. It was served with little white potatoes w\/ brie and fruit for dessert.<\/p>\n

We had a phonetics lesson at 3:00 in the bar-caf\u00e9. \u00a0I’m with the advanced students. \u00a0Pretty interesting.<\/p>\n

More reading & letter-writing.<\/p>\n

Dinner at 7:15. \u00a0Pizza that looked good but different, real tomatoes and stuff on it. \u00a0After dinner, I talked with George who I thought was the cook, but was not. \u00a0He is a tennis instructor at a school & also at a hotel on the French Riviera. \u00a0(The School is in Antibes & the hotel is the l’H\u00f4tel du Cap d’Antibes which is the hotel where Hemingway, Fitzgerald..maybe Murphy’s…[the other couple that were in Kevin Kline’s de-lovely Cole Porter movie] hung out in the 30s). \u00a0He was very interesting, on vacation, and un petit peu fou [crazy], je pense, but very nice.<\/p>\n

To bed.<\/p>\n

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