Beep! It was raining when we woke up this morning, and the Swiss weather app on my phone warned me that it’s not going to stop anytime soon.
Lots of people use this app, and it’s not unusual to hear beeps from several phones if we’re in a bar or on the train. So we didn’t do much today, and tomorrow if anything looks worse. Ah well, we get a lot more sunny days than wet ones.
Yesterday was Switzerland’s birthday, and as ever there was much fun to be had. We started with music on the terrace down at the Alpenrose.
Later on Rocks opened, lovely to be back in our favourite bar.
Fireworks rounded off the evening. Emily got this stunning shot.
After all that we had a slow day today. Rain is forecast so we won’t be going far.
On the shore of Lake Brienz is a beach cafe, and last night they were advertising live music. We popped down to take a look. The cafe is very nice – it’s part of the municipal swimming pool complex.
There’s a good snacks menu and of course a bar; we had beer and burgers. Eventually the band made a start.
More entertainment on the quayside as we walked back to the bus stop – just in case you’d forgotten that it’s Swiss national day today.
Today is the big day, and we’ll have music and fireworks in the village later.
Emily and Ali came round for dinner last night, we had pies and chips with green beans and gravy – yum. When we moved into Chalet Iltis there were a few things that needed fixing, including a cracked tile on the terrace. Unfortunately when the tiler came to fix this he found something amiss with the structure beneath the tiles. Today therefore we were up early to greet the following; An architect, a master builder, the tiler and two local builders.
They poked about on the terrace and drilled some holes, and promised to come up with a ‘solution’ in the next couple of months. Whatever that turns out to be, it won’t be cheap. They did assure us however that the terrace isn’t going to collapse any time soon, so we can continue to use it.
It’s been baking hot today, so apart from a trip to the recycling to dispose of last night’s empties we’ve not done much. This evening there’s live music down by the lake at Bönigen, so we’ll pop down to see that.
It’s another lovely day. We meet Beanie for coffee on the Eiger terrace, then head up to Männlichen. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it so busy.
Friendly cows alongside the path. Cows can’t scratch their foreheads, so they love it if you do it for them.
We walk around to Scheidegg. It’s very warm even at this altitude.
Now it’s time to spruce up the house a little, because tonight is pie night.
Ali had a night off yesterday, so we had drinks at the Caprice followed by the Tanne bar. Rössli the cat has got into the habit of following us home.
Today it’s been a little cooler than of late, so hopefully we won’t get the evening thunderstorms that have been plaguing us recently. We had a run/hike down to Zweilütschinen.
Lots of glacier water in the river.
That might be my last run for a few days; the weather forecast is for very hot weather again.
A barbecue seemed a good idea yesterday, so we went to the Co-op and found prawns and bacon-wrapped sausages, happily both were half price. We were starving by the time we got home, but as I switched on the barbecue there was a solitary blink from its pilot light, and then nothing. Our barbecue was dead. The food cooked well enough in the oven, but it’s not the same.
Noisy this morning – our neighbours are having a delivery.
It’s been a hot, sunny day, punctuated by biblical thunderstorms. Val had her online German class with her mates in the UK, while I went down to Wilderswil to procure a new barbecue.
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