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AUGUST 2004 **Sun
15 Aug 04** My first visit to Montreux was the Summer of 2003. My treatment had finished and I was ready to spread my wings. . . . . There was so much to see along Montreux's lake side. I fell in love with everything Montreux was. And there was something about those evenings, when I sat with my Mama next to Freddie's statue and watched the glowing sun, slowly fall behind the mountains. Beautiful? Spectacular? Special? No - It was more than that - She says goodbye to the world and then tucks herself up for the night under the moon's blanket - She's magical!
Spring '04 After my radiotherapy had finished and my final results had come through; everything started to slow down. No more trips into London for meetings or scans. But when nothing was happening, time seemed to speed up. There was still things on my List that I wanted to do - my 'newest dreams'. I knew the longer I left those things, the harder they would be to achieve. And any holiday; we would have to go sooner, later would be too late. There was one last holiday. Montreux. That Never-Never Land! Travelling in 'my state' wasn't easy! I may look 'normal' and well, maybe even healthy! Sometimes I believe it! But it ain't true! I would have to travel with medical insurance ! Fair enough! Charities take seriously ill children abroad to America all the time - they must use some sort of insurance company?! My Mama spent hours phoning hundreds of different companies - each one claiming they could cover even the most serious cases. The thing is I seem to have a label slapped across my forehead - TERMINAL. - The moment that word was mentioned, I was immediately uninsurable! I gave up evenually. I was tired of disappointments. I would rather just accept that I wasn't going to Montreux again. But once I had accepted it and had started thinking of other spontaneous things I could do.... a video came through the post! A video of that little town by Lake Geneva! Freddie's Statue. The Lake. (The swans on the lake.) The Mountains. And Montreux! It was all there, dancing around on the screen in front of me!! I'd given up too easily!! This was my last chance; my one chance to see those Awesome sunsets again! And I wasn't going to waste it! We left for Geneva a couple of days later.
We spent a day up in the mountains in the glorious sunshine, surrounded by snow! I spent the hours just walking up and down the lake front, and sitting by Freddie's Statue. Watching those swans 'floatin' by! Reliving memories, that weren't even mine! Imagining all the bands and artists who had seen what I was seeing! A place where I didn't have to grow up. Time stands still but the sun keeps rolling! --- Somewhere Out There Beyond The Sun
Somewhere out there beyond the sun
Somewhere out there beyond the sun ---
Vicki Written: August2004
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