We had a quiet day today, sitting watching the snow fall in between the clouds that have enveloped the village for most of the day. Here’s a shot from our balcony in one of the clearer interludes.
It won’t be a quiet evening however. We’re having a party in Rocks with Duo Centrale providing the music. Very much looking forward to it. Tune in tomorrow for pictures.
It’s a lovely morning up at Männlichen, but the clouds over the mountains tell their own story – it’ll snow later for sure.
Lots of fresh snow meant good sport.
At Scheidegg the endless task of clearing the tracks is in full swing.
And sure enough, the first flakes started falling at lunchtime. Neat row of icicles on the path towards home.
Good night out last night night at the quiz, we came second with a lot of help from Sian on the music round. This morning was dull and gloomy so we popped down to Interlaken for shopping. The Swiss like their Primulas.
Walked up to the village later on and it started snowing.
Sat in Rocks talking rubbish with the usual suspects.
The forecast told us that today would be warm and sunny again, so it’s a spring skiing day. We got up really early and caught the 8.45 cable car up to Männlichen. The pistes are pretty firm early on, and it’s gloomy in the shadows.
But the sun gets to work, and the snow begins to soften. Every 10 minutes or so the cable car deposits another 70 skiers at the top of the hill. Down they all come.
We have coffee and head for Scheidegg, where it’s a lot quieter. Pistes getting quite soft now.
We finish off with a glorious romp down Wixi and ski home via Mary’s. By midday it’s really hot and it’s time for lunch and a drink on the balcony.
It’s sunny and very warm today, perfect weather for walking. We catch the little train to Murren.
Murren is much smaller than Wengen and there are a lot less people about. Lovely views across to our side of the valley.
Half way along the walk we approach the mountain restaurant at Winteregg.
There’s a ski race for the kids here today and I’ve never seen it so busy.
After all the snow, we now have wind. Lifts at the top began to close at lunchtime.
Lovely meal at Sina’s last night, and we said farewell to the Barrs. It was great to see you, thanks for being such good company.
It was snowing hard when we woke up this morning. Up at Männlichen it was positively stormy, with zero visibility. We needed to lose some height so we caught the gondola down to Holenstein and skied from there. It continued to snow all day.
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