{"id":13891,"date":"2025-02-07T16:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13891"},"modified":"2025-02-07T16:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:15:40","slug":"dont-believe-the-forecast-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13891","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t believe the forecast (sometimes)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The weather forecast for today wasn\u2019t looking good, with lots of cloud and wind predicted by Swiss Meteo. We decided to go up the hill anyway, on the basis that we could always come straight back down if the weather was awful. In the event it turned out to be a perfectly nice day, and we had a good ski. The grand old hotel \u2018Bellevue Des Alpes&#8217; dominates Kleine Scheidegg, with the Eiger lurking in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0491-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1792\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0491-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0491-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0491-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0491-1024x717.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0491-768x538.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0491-1536x1075.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0491-2048x1434.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_0491-429x300.jpeg 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slopes, trains and restaurants were all quiet too. I guess if you were contemplating a day out from the lowlands the forecast would have been off putting. We treated ourselves to a late lunch of sausage rolls from the bakery &#8211; yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather forecast for today wasn\u2019t looking good, with lots of cloud and wind predicted by Swiss Meteo. We decided to go up the hill anyway, on the basis that we could always come straight back down if the weather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13891\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelsandtribulations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}