JOHN AND DEBBIE ON THE MOVE: We love to go a wandering

along the mountain tracks but when it's cold and very cloudy and wet we would rather stay in our warm apartment and watch Game of Thrones, which is what we are doing today. Sad but true, the weather is being very fluky and unstable here in Wengen. Don't know what's happening cause we ordered good weather for this week particularly. Still it looks like tomorrow might be better, Thursday better again and Friday pretty good. So we are grinning and bearing it today as the clouds roll in and we can hardly see 10 feet in front of us. No point in being out today.

Yesterday was another story and we did a glorious walk along the ridge on the other side of the valley out to another little village called Murren. The scenery is out of this world and for a while we could see (nearly) all of the Jungfrau, Monch and Eiger. Not for long though. Still it was a treat and we loved it. We have bought a pass where we can use cable cars and rack pinion railway at will so really want to get out and get value so at the end of the day we rode the train up to Kleine Schiedegg where you are so close to the big mountains you could reach out and touch them. You can see the glacier faces (is that what you call them?) and the mighty peaks.

Murren is the place to go and cable car up the Schilthorn but it was in cloud so not worth going. We really want to do the trip up the Jungfrau where you can go right to the top but it is very expensive so only worth doing if the sky is clear. Also we want to go paragliding. Would be beautiful to do here and although we probably both have reservations about jumping off cliffs we are going to do it!!!! But this all depends on good weather.

Not to worry nothing one can do about that so we will enjoy whatever is offered and we both agree this is a place we could come back to over and over again. Our apartment is extremely comfortable and probably has one of the best views in the valley with a lovely balcony to take advantage. It is a little wooden chalet so if anyone is considering coming this way let us know and we can help you out with good digs.

Started using walking sticks yesterday. Not the cane types but the European types. It was a great help and I think the Grammar hill would be a lot easier, girls, if we all had a set.