Not Courmayeur, Mostly Valle d'Aosta

And here are all the photos from my Italy trip that were not of Courmayeur itself.


I went for a 'walk' (which turned out to be hiking -- I hate hiking). But it was pretty (pics above and below).


On one afternoon off (there was more than one afternoon off: it was that kind of conference), we went into Aosta itself. Here is the town hall, but there were a lot of nice Roman ruins too.


Arco d'Augusto:


Porta Praetoria and the Torre dei Signori Sancti Ursi:


And a Roman theater:



For the conference dinner, we went to some 'agriturismo' place with a field full of cows with very very loud bells attached to them.


And somewhere behind those clouds and thereabouts is Mont Blanc.


Finally, back in Milan, I stayed one night in a hotel before catching my flight back to the US. It had a garden and pool area crawling with these (kinda cute) little lizards, which did not want me to photograph them.