In summer, just as in winter, it pays to be optimistic where the weather is concerned. Today’s forecast wasn’t great, but the weather looked nice enough so off we went. Our route took us high above the railway.
We walked through a part of the forest called Steinwald where there is a huge isolated rock in the middle of the trees. Glimpses of Wengen along the way.
All in all a nice couple of hours. Live music with Akim in Rocks tonight, must dash.
There’s a mountain behind Interlaken called Harder which overlooks lake Brienz. You can get to the top on a little funicular railway, but we chose to walk about a third of the way up for our walk today. After a hard climb through the forest we are rewarded with lovely views over the lake.
There are lots of villages along the lake shore. This is Goldswil.
Eventually we get to Ringgenberg, where we catch a bus back to Interlaken.
Lieselotte is a German cow and she is here on holiday, or so the childrens’ story goes. A walk from Männlichen to Holenstein is themed accordingly. Off we go.
Snorkelling in the reservoir.
Peep-oh!
Wildlife spotting.
Of course there are lots of real cows too.
And of course Lieselotte must try the alphorn.
The walk takes about an hour and a half down the meadows that are familiar pistes in winter.
The sun peeped through the clouds this morning, so we caught the cable car up to Männlichen. It’s cold!
Nice views down to Grindelwald, and it’s nice to see the reservoir full as we’ll be needing the water for the snow cannons in a couple of months time.
Too cold to hang around for photos.
Tonight we’ll be eating curry.
6 degrees, and I’m talking about temperature rather than Facebook. Still raining too, but now there’s a lot of snow above the village.
It’s the first Saturday of the month, so the local ladies association have a stall on the hubel selling crafty stuff.
We went to Interlaken and bought lots of warming food.
Yesterday’s rain continued all night and got heavier as today wore on. We ran round to the Co-op just before lunch but apart from that we’ve been indoors getting the place shipshape again. The river in the valley was very high as we came up on the train yesterday afternoon, and this raises the spectre of flooding which we haven’t had for a few years now.
Looking forward to this evening as we have live music in Rocks.
Our taxi was right on time this morning, and the rather splendid Mercedes got us to Birmingham airport in great comfort. As we were early we had plenty of time to enjoy an English breakfast.
Our plane wasn’t parked in its usual spot, but no delays were reported and sure enough the little jet appeared outside the terminal.
I’m quite fond of that aeroplane – it has safely carried three generations of my family to Switzerland. We’ve travelled on it countless times, and while it’s very small it goes like stink and has only ever broken down on us once.
I got the phone to record our flight to Zurich.
It was pouring with rain as we landed, and it hasn’t stopped since. Here in Wengen it’s cold, wet and foggy. Not to worry though, it’ll be warm and dry in Rocks later on.
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