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Plans were in place.
As soon as COVID-19 restrictions lifted to the point at which it would be deemed safe for nursing home residents to be transported elsewhere for an afternoon, Homer Foster and I planned lunch. The destination hadnât been pegged, but that was hardly the point.
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The prime thing was we were planning ahead.
Unlike so many seniors â not to mention those, such as myself, planted firmly in middle age â who constantly seem to yearn for the âgood old days,â Homer always had his eye on the future. Even after old age finally forced him into senior living arrangements following so many years of residing independently, Homer never seemed to pine for the past. And he never complained. Whenever Iâd call him in these later years, heâd go on about the latest book he was reading, the people he met at the Great Northern Retirement Home and how well h
Homer Foster led a life well lived — and boasted a colourful vocabulary
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Homer Foster led a life well lived — and boasted a colourful vocabulary
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Once the Monaco of the Alps , this forgotten spa town is poised for a comeback
Bad Gastein, now eerily quiet, was a magnet for high society during the Austro-Hungarian Empire
The mountain town of Bad Gastein
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When I first came to Bad Gastein, a year ago, I could not believe that I had not only never been here before, but had never even heard of it. The vagaries of its notability in history are almost as cyclical as the rise and fall of stock markets.
In February 2020, it seemed to me a classic bustling ski resort, with extraordinary, high-level skiing, comprising 200km of pistes, half of them red runs. Admittedly, the languages you heard in the après-ski establishments tended more towards the Germanic than the frequent smatterings of English or French one might hear in Zermatt or Val d’Isère.