Summer Trip - Day 19 - TMB to Courmayeur

Breakfast was toasts, bread, snack biscuits etc. After a lot of thought we decided that since the refuges were far busier than we expected, it was going to be almost impossible to complete the Tour, so we would cut our walk short and get the bus back through the tunnel to Chamonix from Courmayeur.

We left the refuge at about 8.15. It was sunny so we got some good views up and down the valley.

Today's walk was down the Val Veny and a climb up to a ridge walk with magnificent views of the Mont Blanc range.

As we approached Courmayeur we made a long descent, eventually arriving at the tourist information in the centre about 3pm.

We'd walked 16km, with only 470m of ascent but 1490m of descent.

We bought our bus tickets for the next day and then got some beer and wine from a supermarket. We had a bit of a walk up a hill in the hot sunshine to our hotel, the Agritourismo Le Reve, 110 euros cash for bed and breakfast.

We had nice long showers and a rest, then went out for dinner. After trying a couple of places we ended up in a pizza restaurant Pizzarta which was great, Scott had Calzone and Shirley had Quattro Stagione. We got a taxi back to the hotel, which was a bit of a rip off at 20 euros.