For us it was anything but a fairy tale. In fact, the very antithesis. There was nothing enchanting about it, there was no magic, not so much as a hint of allure. We fell into a rhythm: out of bed at half past five when Heidi woke up, play a movie on the laptop to kill the first uneventful hours, shop for breakfast when the extortionate supermarket opened, eat, go down to the pool and swim with the children until lunch, have lunch in the restaurant there, which catered for several hundred customers and served hamburgers, sausages, and spaghetti, with waiters who hated us, then take Heidi home
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