Berghaus at Bundalp

I don’t normally blog about the hotels we stay at, but this place is definetly worthy of a mention. Not only was it the nicest place yet, but also the cheapest – 55 Francs (£30) for bed, breakfast and evening meal.

The room was upstairs of a big barn, underneath was the cheese making and cow milking room. Didn’t need a wake up call in the morning when the cows came for a milk!

As the stay was so cheap, we felt we had to pay our way by getting stuck into some lager hell!

Rain, Hail, Thunderstorms & Floods!

Blimey, this afternoon was one hell of a ride. When we started to descend from the pass, up came the mist… Soon after that the hail started, by the time I’d said to Nicky, there’s often thunderstorms where there’s hail – Flash, bang, whollop, right above our heads! So loud you could really feel the air vibrate. Faster and faster we charged down the mountain, the hail pummeling the back of our heads.

When it seemed the storm had past over us, the hail turned to heavy rain. Waterfalls coming down the side of the mountain swelled, the streams we had to keep crossing got bigger and browner. After a couple crossings where I had to litterally catch Nicky as she leaped across the raging torrent, we got to a crossing that looked impossible. Luckily there was a farm house nearby where found shelter from the rain. It was occupied by 2 little girls and a lot of mooing cows. Not sure where their parents were, but we managed to buy some beer off them and have a sit down to think about how we were going to get off the mountain.

Unsurprisingly it was a simple solution, after a quick look round there was actually a little footbridge down stream! So fuelled up, we headed back out and made our way down to village of Griesalp in about an hour or so, where we found a nice Berghaus to spend the night in.

Steps Down

We were pleased to see that there were some steps going down the other side. Although when we got around the corner and there was a gang of workers still constructing them! Thankfully they had finished building most of them :)