Thurs. PM- Mummy RnR
Wee boy RnR
This is typical of Valais. It's for grain storage, and we saw some dating back to the 1600s. Notice the big slabs of rock around the bottom? They stop vermin from crawling up to sample the delights. That was one of the views from the chalet.
Fri- A wee trip to the quaint Oberwald to find some sausage. This village has the distinction of being at the 'end of the road'. In the winter, the road to the pass closes till June. There's only one way in and out.
We took a wee walk up the local mountain. Our chalet somewhere down on the left. Notice the parking meter behind the bench? A funny addition that ate one of our francs.
Tromping up the hill. I didn't do much looking down- it got very steep, and the path got very thin.
Kim brought fixins for S'mores. mmmm the chalet had a nice BBQ pit.
Sunday- Getting close enough to the glacier to smell it.
This is the first gondola station up to Bettmeralp (car free village, where there is the last gondola to the glacier). We had to change to another to get there. The village is only 2km from the glacier.... through 6 ft slushy snow.. with no snow shoes.
Lucky for us it's a pretty village.... if a little closed that day (Sunday).
With beautiful views. We believe this could be the back of the Matterhorn.
There was the little matter of picnicing in this lovely area. We brought the picnic, but didn't really think of where to have it. The gondola station was the perfect place to spread out, and eat in style!
We tried to drive to another, smaller glacier, round some steep, hairy bends. At the 'end' of the road was a dirt track which (we were informed by some hikers) was covered in meters of snow. Lucky for us again the views were splendiferous. And I'm not just talking about Kim and Christian. harhar.
Finishing the day with a fondue.
More fun with names! Spotted on the way home.
This is typical of Valais. It's for grain storage, and we saw some dating back to the 1600s. Notice the big slabs of rock around the bottom? They stop vermin from crawling up to sample the delights. That was one of the views from the chalet.
Fri- A wee trip to the quaint Oberwald to find some sausage. This village has the distinction of being at the 'end of the road'. In the winter, the road to the pass closes till June. There's only one way in and out.
We took a wee walk up the local mountain. Our chalet somewhere down on the left. Notice the parking meter behind the bench? A funny addition that ate one of our francs.
Tromping up the hill. I didn't do much looking down- it got very steep, and the path got very thin.
Kim brought fixins for S'mores. mmmm the chalet had a nice BBQ pit.
Sunday- Getting close enough to the glacier to smell it.This is the first gondola station up to Bettmeralp (car free village, where there is the last gondola to the glacier). We had to change to another to get there. The village is only 2km from the glacier.... through 6 ft slushy snow.. with no snow shoes.
Lucky for us it's a pretty village.... if a little closed that day (Sunday).
With beautiful views. We believe this could be the back of the Matterhorn.
There was the little matter of picnicing in this lovely area. We brought the picnic, but didn't really think of where to have it. The gondola station was the perfect place to spread out, and eat in style!
We tried to drive to another, smaller glacier, round some steep, hairy bends. At the 'end' of the road was a dirt track which (we were informed by some hikers) was covered in meters of snow. Lucky for us again the views were splendiferous. And I'm not just talking about Kim and Christian. harhar.
Finishing the day with a fondue.
More fun with names! Spotted on the way home.
So that was our last big Swiss trip, which rather sucks because this was going to be the year where we could enjoyably (for us and both boys) start taking trips. They're great little travellers now, which will come in handy for the coming *months* of homelessness. I'm not sure there will be much more posting as we're still getting the ducks in a row for the heave-ho!
