This is looking east at sun up, I know, what am I doing up.
Also east from the front of the house.
If you look close you can see a cross at the top of the mountain, I have zoomed way in on this. There is a cache there, when we went to find it, the weather was completely socked in. A very long way down. Next will be a photo of the peak from the B&B.
This is the original that I zoomed for the cross picture, it is in the highest part of the mountain. If you look close you can see where the train goes.
On to the Gr St Bernard tunnel. On our way to Aosta. Italy. The Switzerland, Italy boarder is half way through the tunnel. We stopped for lunch in Martigny-ville. They had an awesome street market going, bought some goodies for lunch. Yum.
Just a couple of mountain shots, I have know idea which ones they are.
Next.
Still pretty awesome to look at. These are before the tunnel.
This is the entrance to the tunnel, you drive through Italian customs, they did not ask us to stop. As a side note, we have not been ask to stop at any boarders on the whole trip.
A little dark in here, but the start to the tunnel. We thought it was going to be longer but it is barely five K. It does cost 27.90 Euros though. Once you get through the tunnel, you descend hundreds of meters to the Aosta valley. It is way drier on this side of the Alps, although this photo doesn't show it.
Still a nice photo.
This is our place for the night, I will post more pictures of this place tomorrow. Our room is kind of funky.
Down town Aosta, the closest we have come to that Europian flair, the centre of town is car free, so for about four square blocks, it is a street market, it was nice to just walk around and watch the goings on. We stopped at an awesome little wine store that sold wine at the tables out front, or by the bottle, we did both. The fellow that served us was awesome, I got a lesson about wine and we got a few local delicacies on the house. We had a great local Pinot Gris, I just had to buy a bottle, we will drink it tomorrow. This is the wine we drank and bought.
To work up this thirst, we went to the Roman ruins, these were great to see. It is hard to believe, but to see them is free, not many things are over here. I will add a couple of pictures of the ruins, the ones underground were taken at over a second exposure, so they are a bit fuzzy, sorry, no flash allowed and no tripod.
The view out our window.
The entrance to our room. The stairs are very steep.
I will add a few more pictures tomorrow. I will take a couple of our place for the night, kind of cute.
We will leave here in the morning and head to Lugano Switzerland.
As promised, I got up early and took pictures of our place for the night.
We are above the garage.
Home for a night, it was very comfortable. There is a road right in front, so it was a bit noisy.
That's all for now. More from the next stop.
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