So, about the other night in Lausanne. It turns out that hope is the new dope. Under normal circumstances, a gala dinner celebrating the 160th birthday of a luxurious Swiss hotel might have been just another elegant and cosseting event among many others on the calendar of a privileged international crowd.
But these are not normal times. This particular event, held on December 2 in one of the most beautiful ballrooms in Europe, the Belle Époque Salle Sandoz at the Beau-Rivage Palace in Lausanne, crackled with the hilarity of people briefly recovering the missing pleasure of conviviality.
