Paul and Hayley arrived last night, so up the hill we went today accompanied by Ozzy. Paul hasn’t skied for many years, but skills that you learn at a young age never leave you.
Hayley just skied like a champ, as always.
We all skied round to Scheidegg this afternoon, and a good time was had by all.
Every January Grindelwald hosts the Snow Festival. Lots of stuff happens through the week, but the highlight is the snow sculpture competition. Teams from all over the world are given a few cubic metres of snow, and told to get on with it. Here’s the British entry.
It was quite mild today, and while I was snapping the British sculpture, the very elaborate French entry next door collapsed before my eyes. I hope the judges had already seen it. Swiss sculpture.
Swedish.
And the kids from the local school get to do one. Here’s their Ying & Yang.
The sun came out later, so by now they may all have been reduced to a pile of slush.
It’s another lovely day. We meet Ozzy for coffee and ski around to Scheidegg. We expect this weather in March – it’s very unusual to get consecutive days like this in January.
Ozzy cruising.
Val tearing down Bumps piste just above the village.
Short blog today as we’re off to the cinema tonight for the Swiss premiere of Point Break.
No need for many words today, miles and miles of skiing in perfect conditions, interrupted only by a very quick lunch in the teepee. Enjoy the pictures.
Swiss weather forecast for today: Snow in the morning, then brightening up and a sunny afternoon.
Sure enough it was snowing heavily when we got up. Scheidegg was deserted.
And it did brighten up at lunchtime.
We had a good ski around the Lauberhorn. Then just after lunch it got a lot colder and the snow started again.
It got heavier and heavier.
Deep snow on the home run.
We stopped for hot chocolate at Almend just above the village. The downpour slowed a little, meaning we could enjoy the new snow all the way back to Wengen.
King prawns were half price in the Co-op yesterday, so I made a paella with them. Yum yum.
Monday night is quiz night in Rocks. Our mate Ozzy is here for a few weeks so we entered. I always feel sorry for the Swissies on quiz night – when you get a round of questions based on British TV they’ve got no chance really, but they enter just the same. Anyhow, we won last night, and got a bottle of Prosecco for our efforts.
It’s a grey sort of day today, so we went to Interlaken and replenished our food supplies. Mussels were half price today, so we have another fishy dinner to look forward to.
Bit chilly this morning.
We put on all the clothes we posess and head out. The snow is wonderful. We had a coffee at Männlichen and skied until we couldn’t ski another yard.
Now that the race is over we can ski on the course down to Innerwengen.
It was far too cold to stop for a cafe fertig at the Figeller bar, but we did anyway, just because we could.
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