It’s sunny today, so we’re off up to Kleine Scheidegg. There’s no skiing just yet, so we take the snow shoes.
It’s cold, but it’s lovely to be up in the mountains. Snow cannons are going like crazy.
After our hike we caught the train back down and had a few beers in the Waldschuecht before dinner.
Emily did the cooking last night.
She made a lovely risotto and served it with a sliced loin of pork.
The snow stopped overnight, but we thought there might be enough to try our show shoes. We started on the nursery slope.
Fortunately, snow shoeing turns out to be pretty easy to do and good fun. We soon got the hang of it.
If the weather stays good we’ll take the snow shoes up the mountain tomorrow.
Winter has arrived. It started snowing at breakfast time and hasn’t stopped since. Val had to go to Brienz by the lake – it even snowed down there.
View from our house.
Wengen is looking much more like a ski village now.
Emily is cooking tonight, which is always something to look forward to.
Yesterday was foggy all day, and this morning the cloud was just below the village. It was every bit as cold as it looks.
The cloud produced some very fine snow – we had about a centimetre on the ground this morning. This gives rise to a strange phenomenon, where we have a sprinkling of snow in the village but absolutely none higher up the mountains. We got a glimpse of this when the sun broke through this afternoon.
For the first time this season it really feels like winter has started.
Colin’s mate in the U.K. started hosting a quiz in the first phase of lockdown, so last night we thought we’d give it a try. The quiz is run online using a video conferencing app called Houseparty. It worked pretty well.
There were 7 teams, including a couple who live in Spain. The quiz was quite tricky, and we were happy to come third.
While we were competing, the valley was filling up with thick fog.
Val’s new phone can take these astonishing nighttime photos.
Eventually the fog reached us and so far it’s persisted all day, with the temperature hovering around zero. We’ll stay at home in the warmth and watch the Formula 1 on telly.
We’re running out of all sorts of stuff, so this morning we were off to the Co-op. The amount we can buy is limited by our ability to carry it home, so this afternoon we went again.
Christmas trees have arrived in the village.
Each business along the main street will be given one of these and they are expected to dress them.
Meanwhile, James is teaching Emily a new skill.
She’s chopping up logs for winter.
Once we’d finished all that shopping we cleaned the house from top to bottom. It’s quiz night tonight so we’re expecting visitors.
It’s Black Friday, the day to go shopping for bargains. There are a few things we want so we head for Interlaken. An indulgent lunch at the Cafe de Paris seemed like a good start.
Next we head the the electrical store called Interdiscount. There are lots of discounts and special offers, but unfortunately the Apple TV box that we’ve come for is still the normal price. Ah well, perhaps we’ll have better luck at Dosenbach the shoe shop. No, nothing doing here either, and we pay full price for our waterproof snow boots. It was the same story for the extending poles (for snow-shoeing) that we bought.
So that’s bargain hunting in Switzerland for you – an exercise in futility.
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