HIGH LITES

During this 5 week trip there were, of course, many high lites...
There was Lang Lang playing Mozart, there was Perlman playing Tchaikovsky,
there was "Romeo and Juliet" as well as "Fiddler on the Roof", both fabulous performances in Stratford, Ont.
there was Arowhon Pines in Algonquin Park, there was Vancouver, there was dinner in the Restaurant at the 330 meter level of the CN tower, with brightly lit Toronto beneath us...

None of the above compares in "High Lite" quality with dinner in Unionville with 11 members of the "Willowdale United" soccer club, with whom we visited Austria for a 3 weeks exhibition tour in 1975..... fully 38 years ago. Since the average age then was about 22 years that makes them all about 60 years old. Down below is the picture taken a few days ago. Now I ask you: "Do these guys look 60 ?"
Well, maybe the Coach, (he's the fellow sitting on the floor in the second team picture)...
maybe he looks 60 +...  the rest of them haven't aged a day, since they defeated the second best, Austria had to offer.

At first I thought I should list the names... you know: left to right...  but then I reconsidered:
Those who care, know all the names... and those who don't care, well, they don't care about the names... so you nameless lot: you were a terrific team and you still are terrific men with whom to play this game, nay, whom to know, was an honour and a pleasure for

yours truly: Bertstravels.