We decided to spend a few days up in the Val d’ Aosta region
with the hope of having a guaranteed white Christmas. But it was not to be. Under 2000m the
mountains are still devoid of snow up there and even Monte Bianco seemed less
white than when we saw it this summer.
However we had a chance to relax away from the humdrum of
Reggio Emilia and I managed to get in a couple of short walks in the mountains.
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| Roman Theatre, Aosta |
The first excursion was in the Cogne valley. I did not find
much to photograph until I came across some Chamois which had been driven down
by hunger to the valley bottom. I was able to get quite close to them to take a
couple pictures before they ran off.
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| Cogne, AO |
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| Frozen waterfal, Cogne, AO |
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| Chamois, Cogne,AO |
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| Chamois, Cogne,AO |
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| Cogne, AO |
The other walk I did was in the Rhemes Notre Dame valley
where I came across a delightful little lake surrounded by pine trees. Here I
actually came across some snow.
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| Rhemes Notre Dame, AO |
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| Rhemes Notre Dame, AO |
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| Rhemes Notre Dame, AO |
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| Rhemes Notre Dame, AO |
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| Rhemes Notre Dame, AO |
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| Rhemes Notre Dame, AO |
A part of the Val Ferret was open and we got a taste of a
white Christmas as here there was actually some snow on the ground. We then
stopped off at Courmayeur the most fashionable resort in the region and amazingly
all the shops were open on Christmas day.
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| Monte, Bianco, Val Ferret, Aosta |
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| Val Ferret, Aosta |
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| Courmayeur, AO |
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| Courmayeur, AO |
This year we had a massive Christmas lunch in a restaurant with
the proceedings starting at 1 o’clock and we ate some Panettone to finish at 4 o’clock.
It was nice not to have any dishes to
wash up afterwards.
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| Monte Bianco, Val Ferret, AO |
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