Helen, Adrian, Jan and Steve arrived yesterday afternoon. Drinks in the Caprice.
We had arranged to meet Ibe for skiing this morning. The others went up a little earlier with Colin. Incredibly, we managed to ski all day without bumping into them. Nevertheless we had a good day out, and Ibe skied his first black run.
Super raclette at Ali & Clare’s last night. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten so much cheese.
This morning it’s a beautiful day. A brief pause to wait for Colin at Männlichen.
Glorious views from the top.
The baby lift takes us up the last few metres to our coffee stop at the Berghaus.
A really good morning out.
It snowed last night, and this morning was cloudy and breezy. Later on the sun put in an appearance, so we headed out for a walk after lunch. It was absolutely freezing. These kids are well wrapped up for their lesson.
The village is quiet, and we noticed that the Hotel Berghaus had closed as we passed by. The others will all follow suit over the next couple of weeks.
While we were at the Caprice on Friday we got chatting to the staff about their forthcoming ‘Wine vs beer’ tasting event. It’s a six course dinner, with each course being accompanied by an appropriate glass of wine and beer. Needless to say it’s not cheap, but we eventually agreed a ‘locals’ rate, and so last night we met Ali and Clare and prepared for the feast. We started with cocktails at the bar.
Here’s the menu.
And so it began. The head brewer from the craft brewery in Faulensee was there to introduce the beers.
Needless to say it was absolutely delicious, and we staggered home 4 hours later very content.
There’s a storm coming today, and we had to abandon our plans for a lunchtime barbecue at Männlichen to celebrate Julie’s birthday. Instead we ate our barbecue food for lunch and we’ll toast her birthday over a few drinks later on.
Today we have the crazy run, where lots of impossibly thin people run up the world cup downhill course to the top of the Lauberhorn. Here they go.
At the of the Zielschuss are 2 1000 franc notes. I wonder who got them.
Here’s Hayley on her way up.
You only get 3 hours to complete the course, and the fastest will do it in less than 40 minutes. Prize giving will be in the village later.
It’s fair to say that Switzerland is a pretty expensive place to live, and we therefore avoid eating out unless it’s a special occasion or we have friends visiting the village. We were delighted therefore when the manager at the Caprice offered us dinner as a thankyou for some work that we did for them earlier this year. It’s our anniversary in a couple of days, so we thought we’d have our free dinner last night to celebrate. It was quite an occasion, with cocktails, pink champagne and a lovely dinner with fillet steak.
Today we’re off to a village called Wilderswil where there’s a shop we need to visit. There’s a tiny vineyard here.
The views back to the mountains are spectacular.
Meanwhile, back in Wengen it’s an anniversary for the pool race – this is the 20th one we’ve had. Here’s Ollie.
And Kaspar from downstairs trying to cross the pool backwards.
It’s a beautiful day, so we head for the lake. It’s still very quiet down here, the steamers won’t start their services until Easter.
The yacht club jetty.
It’s warm. We enjoyed our ice creams while we waited for the train to take us back up the valley.
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