In the Fog at Monterosa
12/03/2026 At the head of the Lys valley, above the last village of Gressoney-Saint-Trinitie, is the tiny hamlet of Staffal. It’s also known as Tschaval, which is it’s name in… Read more »
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Resting in the Lys Valley
09/03/2026 After Pila, guess where we went. Yes, that’s right, we popped back to Châtillon. We’re not the only people who are using this location as a bit of a… Read more »
Climbing the Switchbacks to Pila
06/03/2026 After the morning in Torgnon we decided to move on. With blue sky days now forecast for the rest of the week we needed to find somewhere higher and… Read more »
Abandoned Villages and Tourist Villages
03/03/2026 We scooted back down the valley to Châtillon for a quick break, leaving Cervinia on the Friday afternoon to avoid the expected weekend hordes. Of course we don’t know… Read more »
Is this the Last Year for Cervinia?
27/02/2026 We moved on to the sosta in Cervinia next. The sosta here is a large area of ground which may have once been tarmac but is now just some… Read more »
Filling our Faces in Valtournenche
23/02/2026 After our interesting experience at the campsite we were ready to return to a bit of off grid parking. The sun was shining and the days were warm. The… Read more »
Chamois – And an Interesting Camping Experience
24/02/2026 We were excited to get back on our skis after our February holiday break, and we were particularly excited because we were going to try somewhere we have never… Read more »
Aqueducts and Snow
22/02/2026 We were originally planning to stay in Fenis a second night, but after our walk we were a bit hot and sweaty and decided we’d rather be on EHU… Read more »
Planning and Re-planning
18/02/2026 We made a little plan before we left Pre Saint Didier. It wasnt complex, just a drive to Aosta and skiing in Pila. But even a simple plan can… Read more »
Sent away from La Thuile
16/02/2026 Never, in our ten years of travelling in a motorhome, have we been asked to leave a parking area. This was a new one for us. Leaving France We… Read more »
The Power of Water in the Cogne Valley
12/04/25 We have visited the Aosta valley so many times, but there are still new things to do even if we stay in the same places. In this blog post… Read more »
Brusson and the Isollaz Waterfall
09/04/2025 From Champoluc we drove just a few kms back down the road to the town of Brusson, a tourism centre further down the Ayas valley. The sosta here is… Read more »
Champoluc. What Season Is It?
07/04/25 This blog entry starts with a final couple of days skiing in Cervinia. We had some lovely fresh snow followed by bright sunshine. Most notably we had pizza from… Read more »
A Weekend in Torgnon
31/03/2025 We drove down to the bottom of the valley and Chatillon for a night to get some washing and shopping done. It’s a regular haunt of ours and I… Read more »
Impianti and other Words
27/03/2025 It has taken us a while, years in fact, to get our heads around the names for the different types of infrastructure that get us around the ski slopes…. Read more »
Unexpected Sunshine in La Thuile
25/03/2025 We had finally made it to Italy! We exited the Mont Blanc Tunnel to the sight of the dormant vineyards, stone buildings and steep mountainsides of the Aosta Valley…. Read more »
Our last few days of Skiing
13/12/2023 A short walk along the Via Francigena The Via Francigena is an ancient pilgrimage route from Canterbury to the Rome. The route is sometimes taken all the way down… Read more »
In the Christmas Spirit?
10/12/2023 With Christmas approaching, what is better to get you in the mood than a trip to a Christmas market? Surrounded by all the trappings of the festive period it… Read more »
Trying somewhere new in Champoluc
08/12/23 Cervinia is great, and we love going back, but we feel disappointed if we dont try somewhere new. We had heard of a new sosta near the ski resort… Read more »
December Skiing in Cervinia
30/11/2023 Our first day in Cervinia was not to be the mega skiing day we had hoped for. Snow fell during the night and then continued to fall all day…. Read more »