Super dinner of thai-style salmon at Ali’s last night, and she made a huge apple crumble for desert. Yum.
This afternoon we had a nice walk up to Stutzweidli. Conveniently there’s a bench at the top of the hill.
Artificial snow on the run back to the village. Hopefully it’ll soon be cold enough to make some more, but for now the mild, sunny weather continues.
Today we’re off to Wilderswil down in the valley. They have a good home ware store and I need a few things for the kitchen. The store is about 15 minutes walk from the railway station. We pass a vineyard on the way.
An old hotel and a castle overlook the village. There’s a lot of history here.
We got to the store and I found the things I needed, and we strolled back towards the station. A family of llamas live in this stable.
They’re very curious and friendly.
The llamas are useful. If you go on a long hike and you want to take lots of stuff with you, maybe for a barbecue in the forest, you can take a llama and it will carry everything for you.
The village is hard at work, with maintenance jobs being done everywhere. This afternoon a guy came and cleaned the guttering on our roof, and at Central Sport Colin is renewing the benches in the ski depot downstairs. Our cable car is also getting some attention, the balcony on the roof has been removed for winter.
The weather’s nice enough for things to begin growing again. These daisies don’t seem to realise that it’s late November.
Everyone who isn’t working seems to be out walking, and that’s exactly what we spent the afternoon doing.
Val was away early this morning to see her dentist in Brienz. It’s another lovely day here in the Oberland. Interlaken this morning.
And at the other end of the lake, from Brienz.
I caught the train down to meet her for lunch – delicious potato soup at the youth hostel. We got some shopping and I hauled it home while Val went to the bank to sort out e-banking on her new phone. Later on she has her Pilates class. Busy day!
It’s a pretty good day – warm if you’re in the sun and a bit chilly if you aren’t. We walk out towards Innerwengen, avoiding a few icy patches on the path.
The animals are mostly in their barns for winter now, but the odd one peeps out to see what’s happening in the world.
Patches of snow from the cannons on the slalom run. Sadly the snow looks unlikely to last in this mild weather, but there’s plenty of time to make some more.
We had a nice meal at Sina’s last night. Val has been practicing taking selfies with her new phone.
Today it’s dry, sunny but absolutely freezing. We’re off to Interlaken. Christmas shopping is in full swing, and everywhere is busy. Santa’s grotto outside the Bödeli Centre.
And a mini Christmas market outside the Co-op.
Yesterday’s rain turned to snow overnight, and this morning we awoke to find a dusting on the terrace.
We popped up to the village for supplies. It’s looking a bit more wintry than we’re used to.
Our snow shoes have arrived. We’ll need a lot more snow before we can try them out.
I think the snow will be like British snow – it covers your garden at breakfast time but is gone by lunch. To be honest, outside of the ski season, snow is a bit of a pain.
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