FollowThis morning Val had her German class, and I popped up to the village to get shopping and go to the post office. After lunch we’re off down to the council office in Lauterbrunnen again. This time we’re sorting out our national insurance. Val already has an NI number because she works, but we both need to provide more information so that the authorities can calculate how much we have to pay. This is exactly the same financial stuff that we already provided for our residence permits, but we’ve learned by now that government departments here never share information with each other. Swiss bureaucracy can be maddening, but we have all the time in the world, and we’ll get there in the end.
The council have been busy putting marker posts along the paths. Around 50 kilometres of hiking trails are kept open through the winter, so there must be thousands of these posts.
