Nice pink Jungfrau last night.
It’s another nice day – sunny, but freezing cold. We’re off to a viewpoint called Hunneflue.
From here it’s a drop of about half a mile, straight down to the valley floor.
3 of us won’t go within about a metre of the edge. Ali however, has no such qualms.
We continue back towards the village. Who lives at this house, high above the village? Nobody knows.
A pause at a memorial to a dear friend, who left us way before his time.
Colin was guest chef last night; he made a lovely chilli.
Ali made a cake.
It’s a beautiful day today, so we’re off for a walk. We head out towards Innerwengen where there have been sightings of a large herd of Ibex.
New born lambs.
We continue into the forest. Eventually we can go no further owing to some big fallen trees.
Looking down towards tiny Innerwengen and Mary’s Cafe.
We never did see any Ibex. Easyjet have cancelled our Wednesday flight. We’re now rebooked for Saturday. Quiet night in tonight.
Dinner last night – lots of not very healthy stuff from our local Portuguese takeaway.
Emily facetimed Hayley and took her on a tour of the house.
This morning we awoke to an email from Easyjet telling us that they’d cancelled our flight to the UK on Tuesday. We’ve rebooked for Wednesday, but I’m not particularly optimistic if I’m honest. Apart from a quick trip to the recycling to dispose of last night’s empties, today has been spent at home. Wengen is veiled in thick, chilly fog.
Towards the end of every season we go round to Ali’s for raclette. It’s potatoes, melted cheese and lots of different meats cooked on a hot stone. Definitely my favourite night of the season.
Today we’re off to Stechelberg for a walk. The government says we need to keep at least 2 metres apart, so we do. It’s no problem when you’re walking, but it was pretty much impossible on the bus.
Our house is the virtual pub tonight, we’re getting a big takeaway from Santos.
Last night our plumbing went haywire. Taking a shower upstairs led to the downstairs toilet filling up, and other strange watery effects. Colin popped down with a plunger but we couldn’t improve the situation. Our local plumber has the same problem as everyone else at the moment – he’s basically unemployed, so he was down here in no time to get things working again.
The shortest way up to the village from here takes us across the railway line. Look out for the train!
With all the bars closed, people have been sitting on the benches on the Eigerhübel drinking beer and socialising. This has attracted the attention of the police, who were in the village yesterday checking everyone’s residence permits. Signs have now appeared on the hübel.
Raclette at Ali’s tonight.
Lovely twilight shot of our little cluster of houses and the Jungfrau yesterday evening.
Today’s challenge is to get our sofa-bed and a big cupboard down to Ali’s. We need some help with this. Here come Mike and Mary-Anne with Colin’s tractor.
Loading up.
The tractor doesn’t go much faster than a walking pace, but it can handle almost any terrain. No problem getting to Ali’s house.
So that’s another job off the list.
With lots of help from Ali, Emily and a very helpful taxi driver, we completed our move to chalet Iltis this afternoon. Even the weather’s been co-operative, I would never have imagined we’d be blessed with 3 consecutive warm sunny days in March.
So that’s a big project completed. We’ll sleep well tonight.
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