Our landlady Vivienne came today, with lots of tradesmen. They’re going to replace our terrace floor.
We left them all to it. We’re off on holiday.
Our favourite hotel in Meiringen has a very nice bar.
What we’re looking forward to most, though, is dinner.
The weather’s even better than it was yesterday, so once again we found ourselves up at Männlichen this morning. It’s impossible to overstate the magnificence of the mountains on days like this.
Round at Scheidegg, everyone’s hungry. Here’s the queue for chips.
We head up the Lauberhorn. The Start bar’s busy too.
From the Lauberhorn it’s a cruise back to the village, where we got burgers from the Figeller bar. We need to be home a bit early, as our landlady is visiting tomorrow and the place could do with a spring clean.
The weather’s definitely feeling more spring-like, and this morning we’re off up the hill again.
The chairlift at Gummi broke down when we were 10 feet from the top. We dangled here for a good 5 minutes. The good thing about this was that it meant the slope down to Arven was deserted.
We had a good ski and a chippy lunch at Scheidegg again. On the way down to Wixi afterwards.
From Wixi we get the lift up to the summit of the Lauberhorn and ski back to Wengen. Beer at the Figeller bar on arrival.
Great day out in the sunshine.
It’s not a bad day, cold, but bright. We’re off down to the valley for a walk.
Slightly scary Easter bunny at one of the farms.
Sunday market in Lauterbrunnen. Lots of lovely stuff from the local farms.
The weather got colder and a few snowflakes began to fall. We were very glad to get back on the train back up to Wengen.
I managed to get hold of some British sausages from the butcher in Bern, so last night I made toad in the hole.
Ali carves it up.
Served with carrots, homemade gravy and a nice bottle of red.
Later on, Val beat everyone at Yahtzee. Today we’ve been shopping in Grindelwald. Val had a particularly successful afternoon, and came back with a nice gilet and a top. It’s been cloudy, but this evening after dinner we did get a glimpse of the mountain.
It’s a glorious day, so up the hill we go. We start at Männlichen.
Top of Gummi, on the way to Scheidegg.
No queues, anywhere.
A pit-stop for lunch at Scheidegg.
Ali, cruising on Arven.
Val follows her down.
We spotted something moving on the snow. It’s a tiny shrew.
A great day out, and there’s plenty of snow to last us until the end of the season. My turn to cook tonight.
We were convinced we’d seen the last of the snow last night – all the forecasts said it would come to an end yesterday afternoon. However, when we’d finished watching our next episode of ‘For All Mankind’ (highly recommended) I looked out of the window and it was snowing hard again.
This morning it was still snowing lightly, but once again the forecasts were optimistic, so we headed for the cable car. The birds have very little to eat when the snow is deep on the ground, so they hang around the cable car station hoping for a few crumbs.
The cable car whisked us up to Männlichen – it rises 1000 metres in just 5 minutes. At the top we couldn’t see a thing through the fog, and it was snowing hard.
Normally in this situation we’d skate across to the restaurant and have a coffee while we hope for an improvement. Today however, with the restaurant closed, low temperatures and driving snow we had little option but to return to the village. At least we tried.
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