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The rain that the forecasters had promised us arrived yesterday evening and continued through the night. It finally came to an end this morning, and then the sun came out. It’s very mild. Eiger terrace doing a roaring trade, very unusual in January.

It’s still chilly down in the valley.

The skiing won’t be up to much after all the rain, so we popped down to Interlaken for shopping. Wengen is in the shadow of the mountain when we get back, but up high the sun will keep shining for another hour or so.

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Rain is forecast today, but it looks nice enough, so up we go. Busy at Männlichen, so we head round to Scheidegg.

Stopped for coffee at the Eigernordwand. Bumped into Colin who was skiing with Carol and Chris.

We did a few laps around the Lauberhorn.

Eventually hunger got the better of us, so we skied down to Mary’s and got the lift up to Allmend. The soup was delicious.

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Excellent evening in Rocks last night. Steve & Colin played for apres ski, but we were having such a good time they carried on until late. I popped out to Santos half way through and got a huge takeaway – yum.

Today it’s snowing again. The plough finally put in an appearance this morning.

The village is looking great. Toboggans are the most common means of transport when the weather’s like this.

Uptown Lights at the Caprice later.

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Lively evening at the Sunstar last night. Colin’s mate Matt is here for a few days, so the Duo became a trio.

Snow was forecast for today, so we were a bit disappointed to wake up to find the temperature at +5C. We needn’t have worried. By coffee time the storm had arrived, the temperature plummeted and it got very windy. No trains to Scheidegg, and one solitary ski lift at Bumps open.

It’s gloomy, but we needed the snow.

The path up to our house will hopefully be ploughed before long. The snow is forecast to continue tomorrow.

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The weather wasn’t supposed to be very nice today, but it looked ok at breakfast time, so up to Männlichen we went.

It’s one of those days when whatever you do with your goggles or sunglasses, you still can’t see. We picked our way round to Scheidegg, and the sun came out.

There’s lots of noise on the Lauberhorn. 150 kids are taking part in the British Schoolboys Ski Races.

It clouded over at lunchtime and it looks like we’ll get some snow before long.

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The day started quite brightly, but it grew increasingly gloomy and there’s not much scenery to see.

Everyone agrees that the weather’s going to change in the next few days, but what it changes to is anyone’s guess. The kids are still here. This afternoon they had a treasure hunt around the village.

Uptown Lights at the Sunstar later.

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It’s a nice day, with warm sunshine managing to penetrate the veil of high cloud that’s been hanging around for the past few days. Curlers enjoying being able to play outdoors.

It’s a quiet time of year for the ski schools, and they’ll offer good deals to anyone who’ll bring a load of kids for lessons. Several international schools are here, and there are children everywhere.

The sun sets quite early at this time of year, but the kids will keep going until the nursery lift is switched off.