Today we want to continue our lap of lake Brienz. The Swiss weather forecast says there’ll be a thunderstorm at 3pm, and the BBC say midday. The weather looks nice enough, so we decide to go anyway. We begin at Oberried.

As usual, our walk begins with a climb into the forest above the lake. Wood from the forest is an important resource here, and there’s a lot of it alongside our path.

Big, and somewhat scary suspension bridge over a deep ravine. We didn’t cross it, but opted to take another route back down to the lake shore.

Eventually we arrived at the outskirts of Brienz.

There are some very old buildings here – it’s an attractive little town.

We missed the boat by a few minutes, but we wanted to buy ice creams anyway, and 10 minutes later a train arrived to take us back to Interlaken. We needn’t have worried about the rain – all the forecasts were wrong.

So that’s the whole north shore of the lake completed. We’ll make a start on the southern shore next week.