I have been in Zug in Switzerland for a business trip this week. One evening meeting was with a potential client who asked in advance that my business colleague and I ‘go easy on him’ because he was trying Dry January. He expected that being London City boys we would get him wrecked and I have to admit in the past we would have done, especially me, as I was the worst culprit for encouraging others with my favourite remark, ‘one for the road.’ Imagine his delight to find not only that I don’t drink anymore but I also gave him signed copies of both my books. We had a great evening, some fantastic fish freshly caught from Lake Zug and lots of fun and laughter. My client and I stuck to water (the Swiss don’t seem to do lime juice) and my business colleague had a guilty beer and glass of red wine.
Later we went for a walk around the old medieval City which is beautiful and reminiscent of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with its cobbled streets, its castle with pointy turrets and towers and dark narrow streets. I even imitated the infamous Child-catcher calling ‘Children, come out Children’ in a loud voice and creeping about in sinister fashion wearing my dark raincoat. Needless to say there were no children to be seen, in fact everyone stayed well out of my way. See, you don’t need to be drunk to make a complete nuisance of yourself!
Later we went for a walk around the old medieval City which is beautiful and reminiscent of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with its cobbled streets, its castle with pointy turrets and towers and dark narrow streets. I even imitated the infamous Child-catcher calling ‘Children, come out Children’ in a loud voice and creeping about in sinister fashion wearing my dark raincoat. Needless to say there were no children to be seen, in fact everyone stayed well out of my way. See, you don’t need to be drunk to make a complete nuisance of yourself!
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