Snowing when we got up this morning, but that’s ok because happily, Val has her first day off since before Christmas. The snow continued for most of the day, and it seems to be getting much colder.
The train down to Lauterbrunnen was packed with people leaving, as today is the last day of the holidays here – everyone will be back at work tomorrow. Uptown Lights will be playing at the Caprice later, so I guess we’ll have a wander up to see them.
Last night we had our usual double new year celebrations, the Swiss new year at midnight followed by Jools Holland on the BBC and the British new year at 1am. Aneta doing a fine job of encouraging the revellers as usual, while Sebestyén makes cocktails.
But this morning we’re back down to earth, and Val goes up to Scheidegg to work and I went down to Lauterbrunnen for a run. Here’s one of the pylons for the Eiger Express on the way to Brandegg. They’re absolutely enormous.
I know it’s progress, and we need to keep the lift system up to date, but it’s hard not to have a few misgivings when confronted with something like this.
Good party in Rocks yesterday evening with Uptown Lights providing the entertainment. This morning was grey and mild. Fireworks for sale in the street for the festivities tonight.
At Scheidegg there’s a new pizza oven in the little teepee, replacing the old (and slow) wood burning oven that we’ve had for years.
Nursery slope at Scheidegg. High above at Eigergletcher you can see the tower crane that’s being used to construct the terminal of the new Eiger Express lift from Grindelwald. It should be finished in time for the start of the ski season next year.
We did get a few rays of sunshine later in the afternoon. Lots of kids having fun, village looking beautiful.
The film was very good last night – if you like Queen’s music I can thoroughly recommend seeing Bohemian Rhapsody.
This morning was grey and overcast, not great skiing weather but of course Val had to go up anyway. She’s teaching a family from Bridgnorth who learned at Telford. View down Bumps towards the village.
Bumps is part of the World Cup downhill course, so the snow is pretty good. Our nursery slope on the other hand, is beginning to look a bit threadbare.
Uptown Lights have an afternoon gig at the snow bar outside the Brunner. It seemed to go really well.
We’ll be seeing them again in Rocks later this evening.
The Saturday between Christmas and New year is one of the busiest of the season in terms of arrivals and departures. Ali got this pic of the queue for the cable car up to Mürren this morning.
It’s a dismal place to have to queue too, as the valley is under a cloud.
Meanwhile, at the top of the Lauberhorn, the best seat in the house awaits you.
Cinema tonight, Bohemian Rhapsody.
The fine weather continues, so everywhere is very busy. Scheidegg absolutely mobbed.
Here’s Rachel and her group of kids skiing the moguls on Bumps this afternoon.
Been to the Co-op and bought chicken, onions, yoghurt etc so we’ll have a curry later.
Beves and Ibe have a regular Wednesday evening slot at the Caprice this season, so we popped in to see them last night. It was a bit quiet as many people seemed to be having a quiet night in after the excesses of Christmas day, but the music was great.
This morning was cold and clear. Val headed up to her ‘office’. Here it is, early this morning.
Everyone else seemed to go skiing, but it’s perfect weather for a run so I headed down to Lauterbrunnen. The temperature was hovering around zero and the path along the river was dry. In these conditions I can go fast and far, and I count my blessings as I listen to reports of motorway congestion on Radio 2.
The Telegraph ran an article on the prettiest ski resorts in the world a few days back. Guess which village had the number one spot.
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