The Chalet Girls Grow Up

This is a semi-serious sequel to a famous series of school stories. I’m afraid it upset some people, but that was not the intention. I was just imagining what might happen to these fictional young women growing up in the world of the 1960s and after.

1990

The three women got off the train at Lauterbrunnen and asked Axel, the cab driver, for the Chalet Hotel. As they climbed, they saw some magnificent views. The great Alps, not more than twenty miles away, the pine forests, the white slopes gleaming brilliantly in the winter sun, all much as they would have looked to the tired eyes of TB patients, at the beginning of the century……