The storm has passed, but it’s still pretty windy up high. Far fewer people around today as the school holidays are over.
The Venns arrived last night, but unfortunately their luggage didn’t. It finally got here at breakfast time this morning. Had a nice ski around the pistes at Männlichen.
Quiz tonight hosted by Altitude ski school, fingers crossed for a result.
Lovely curry last night, the good citizens of Wengen gradually drifted in as word of the opening spread around the village.
After eating we went back to Rocks, and the weather outside grew increasingly stormy. This morning the whole village was locked-down, with no trains or ski lifts running at all. On days like this you can’t get out of Wengen at all, and as it’s a Saturday this means lots of missed flights for folk who are due to go home.
The only good news is that we often get a heavy snowfall after weather like this. Fingers crossed.
High winds are forecast for Wengen today, so we popped over the valley to Mürren for a ski. Nice views back to Lauterbrunnen from the BLM cable car.
Kids having a great time on the carousel at Winteregg. Stupendous backdrop.
Alas, the skiing wasn’t great. Yesterday’s rain and last night’s frost have conspired to produce pistes that resemble an ice rink. Things will improve over the weekend.
Back in Wengen we have big news – our Indian restaurant opens tonight. No prizes for guessing where we’ll be dining this evening.
And when it wasn’t raining it was foggy. Val went up early for her last lesson of the week. Colin came round to download his latest blockbuster series and we all had lunch. Popped into Rocks later to finalise the timing for our anniversary party. Weather forecast is high winds for the next two days, but fingers crossed it won’t be too bad.
Val’s lesson was cancelled this morning – apparently the parents didn’t like the look of the weather. They were probably right, high winds closed most of the lifts and it would have been distinctly unpleasant up at Scheidegg.
We took the opportunity to pop down to Interlaken for shopping – it’s nice to have a bit more variety than we get from our Co-op in the village. We also got some spare keys cut for the apartment. When we got back to Wengen it was snowing, and it looks set-in for the evening.
Oh, the curling. Val’s team lost 7-6 to a team of Swiss, and they all trouped back to Rocks for drinks afterwards.
It was snowing hard when Val left for work this morning. Eased off in the middle of the day then the snow returned with strong wind this afternoon. I got this shot out of our bedroom window of a couple of hardy souls trying to get home.
Val is curling with her colleagues from Ski School later. There’s usually a bit of a party afterwards.
School holidays in Holland this week, and I think the whole country has come to Wengen. This is easily the busiest week of the year. Popped up to Scheidegg to meet Val after her lesson and the place was heaving.
We had a good night in Rocks yesterday evening. Here we are sharing our 1st prize with quiz organisers Ali and Barbara, and barmaid and unofficial 4th team member Aneta.
That photo was taken by a certain Michael Cowen, who then proceeded to wander round the bar taking photos of everyone else. Here are a couple.
And of course a selfie.
Just a standard Sunday night in Rocks really.
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