Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon preparing vegetables and making onion rings. We’ve got steaks from the butcher, and each one is topped with a plump prawn.

Add some chips, asparagus and carrots, along with the onion rings, and smother with peppercorn sauce.

Beanie & Sandro left Wengen earlier this month (Sandro has lived here for 42 years). They’ve moved to Gimmelwald, which is a tiny hamlet across the valley, and today we’re going over to visit them at their new home. There is neither road nor rail access to Gimmelwald; the only way to get there is on this cable car which comes up from Stechelberg in the valley.

And here’s the house. It looks a bit rustic, but it’s been completely modernised inside.

We had coffee and cakes before wandering back to the cable car. Gimmelwald is home to about 100 people. You can buy milk, cheese, eggs and meat from the farmers, but there are no proper shops at all. They do have a pub, of course.

Gimmelwald is a bit higher than Wengen, and as you can see it was snowing. It’s snowing heavily in Wengen now too, very strange weather for April.