The rain continued all night and all day today. The natural ice rink looks like a lake.
After doing our chores we head down to Matten and have fish and chips at the Three Tells pub. Lovely food and lovely pub, takes our minds off the weather.
We came out on top in the quiz last night, largely due to Ozzie getting 20/20 on the music round.
Today we’ve had a mixture of rain and snow. View from my piano stool.
Looking forward to Steve & Colin playing in the Sunstar later.
Beautiful day, ran into Barbara with one of her guests on Bumps. Lots of kids here for the schools races this week.
Great excitement in the village over the opening of Wengen’s first Indian restaurant. We know the owners as they have a restaurant in Grindelwald.
We have rain and snow forecast for the next few days.
Despite having been regular visitors here for half our lives, there are still places we haven’t seen. Today we’re off to a village called Habkern. It’s hidden away in the mountains to the north of Interlaken. To get there we get a bus from the railway station at Interlaken West. Total cost CHF5.20.
Habkern’s population is 640 so it’s smaller than Wengen. The bus drops us off in the spookily quiet village.
Lovely views to the south.
We buy a doughnut from the bakery and walk up the hill away from the village centre. After a while we begin to hear kids voices. It can’t be a school because it’s Saturday. Before long all is revealed. The village has a ski lift.
It’s brilliant. One single ski lift is enough to occupy all the kids in the village and quite a few grown-ups too.
There are several routes back down, and the kids just tear about. There’s a big coat rack at the bottom where they leave their rucksacks.
We liked Habkern a lot. It’s probably the most laid-back ski village in the country.
Less cold today and still very sunny. Ascending Männlichen on the gondola.
Very few people around. This is the main drag from the top.
Cloudy and cold down in the valley under the fog.
Lovely morning. Here’s Val coming down from Honegg.
Lunch in the teepee.
Up on the Lauberhorn after lunch it started to get windy, and before long we had a big storm with lifts and even the trains stopping for a while. We skied back to the village in double-quick time.
Good ski up at Männlichen today, the snow is fast and grippy. Lovely sunshine. Every Tuesday evening the Inghams reps organise curling. You need teams of four for curling so as we live 50 yards from the curling rink we get a call to make up the numbers.
Val was the winning skipper. I’ll never hear the last of it. John would be proud.
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