{"id":13797,"date":"2025-01-15T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13797"},"modified":"2025-01-15T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:52:01","slug":"world-snow-festival-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13797","title":{"rendered":"World Snow Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today we’re off to Grindelwald, where the World Snow Festival is taking place. Teams from all over the world are given a 3 metre cube of snow, from which they must produce a sculpture. The Germans are making a cow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here it is. The sculptures won\u2019t be judged until the weekend, so they\u2019re a work in progress at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The USA. Turtles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Latvia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the Italians are making a coffee pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the past 2 years the competition has been cancelled owing to a lack of snow, so it\u2019s nice to see the sculptures back again. Grindelwald is also a good village for shopping, so we had a good look around the outdoor shops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A nice day out. Val has started going to a yoga class on Wednesday afternoons, so we got back to Wengen after a nice lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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