Yesterday evening we all trooped into the church to see David and Nati renew their vows. In fact it was a full-blown wedding ceremony. Here they are coming down the aisle.
Naturally this was followed by a party of epic proportions in the Gasthof Jakober opposite the church. Here are Nati, David and Vicky. Pauli was behind the bar spinning the tunes.
Erik and Anna from Stockholm.
More merriment.
This morning we had a good breakfast and boarded the Railjet which brought us back to Switzerland.
We had a good night out with friends new and old yesterday, and today we had a look around the village. We’ve not been here for years and it’s certainly grown a lot.
The church is magnificent inside. David and Nati are having a ceremony to renew their wedding vows this evening.
Today we are off on a trip to Austria. We get the usual trains through to Zurich, then we catch the Austrian Railjet train over the Arlberg pass.
The train goes all the way to Vienna, but we get off at Innsbruck and then we catch a local train to Brixlegg. Nati picked us up in the car along with Pauli and Vicky who had been to school, and we headed up to Alpbach. It’s very pretty.
We meet up with old friends for a few beers, then we eat. As we are no longer in Switzerland we can afford to eat like kings.
Val went to the hairdresser yesterday evening, so I went curling with Ally and some of her guests. Great fun.
Beautiful day today, so up we went to Scheidegg.
We hooked-up with Colin and Ally and had a blast round the mountains. With no stops for coffee or lunch we covered a lot of ground. At Eigergletcher.
Sun lighting up the chairlift covers.
We had a beer at Allmend on the way home. Super day.
Here’s the cause of all the trouble yesterday – a landslip across the railway track just below the village.
It stopped raining sometime in the early hours of this morning. Transport-wise everything is back to normal. We pop up to Männlichen to see what’s happening.
It’s a bit gloomy but the skiing is ok. Very few people around. Dramatic sky above the partially buried berghaus.
The sun kept trying to peep through the clouds, but it was fighting a losing battle. Down in the valley there’s another layer.
We had a good evening out at Rocks last night and came second in the quiz. While we were having fun the snow turned to rain. This continued all night. Rain is bad, and we weren’t surprised to find that Wengen was marooned this morning – no trains in or out of the village owing to a rockslide.
Up at Scheidegg it continued to snow of course. The tracks were covered in a metre of the stuff by this morning.
The rain continued all day in Wengen. Needless to say there’s been no skiing, though Männlichen cable car did open for a while. It’s not a day for going out at all, but I’ll have to take all our accumulated cardboard out at some point as it’s the monthly recycling day tomorrow.
Wengen is in the grip of a huge snowstorm. High winds at the top mean no skiing. Not to worry, there’s lots of skiing on telly and we cheered Dave Ryding on to a creditable 9th place in the world cup slalom at Kitzbühel.
We had to pop out to buy something for dinner.
Now that we’ve got Christmas, New Year and Lauberhorn out of the way we can start having our quiz nights in Rocks. Hopefully a few people will brave the weather and join in.
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