We woke up to rain ... constant drizzle, not enough to be a concern, but stops us going up high anywhere.
However it gave us a good opportunity to take a ride into Zermatt and have a look around.
the train ride was on the special service that links up from Brig, in two carriage sets. 10 minutes later we were arriving at the Zermatt train station... my first impressions were not of a mountain centre but a tourist haven. The streets were filled with people milling around gazing into shop windows, being chased by electric buggies (every hotel seemed to have a fleet for ferrying guests), and the occasional horse drawn cart for sight seeing.
We found the dispersed cable cars and trains stations which disappeared up to various mountain stops.
everything was so expensive we could only afford a coffee before we ran away back to our tents, and the bar at the camp-site reception.