I had intended to use today’s post to talk about yesterday’s sessions here in Aosta, but it’s going on midnight here, and tomorrow will clearly not afford any opportunities to write. Tuesday turns out to be our sightseeing day. We leave the hotel at 9:00 and head for Verrès, where we visit the Mechatronics Laboratory of the Politecnico di Torino. Then we head up into the mountains, visiting the Bard fortress, with individual visits to the Museum of the Alps. After lunch at what is said to be an excellent restaurant called La Polveriera, we go to an exhibition called ‘Verso l’alto, l’ascesa come esperienza del sacro’ — Towards the heights: The ascent as experience of the sacred. Then to dinner at the Hotel Notre Maison, where we are promised traditional Aosta Valley food.
Image: The Aosta town hall, where our opening sessions were held. Later, we moved to the Hotel Europe.
As for tomorrow, we don’t get back to the hotel until midnight. No more today or I’ll be late for the bus, but I’ll hope to get more posted on Wednesday, when we return to our scientific schedule. Until then, imagine me bumping up narrow mountain roads looking at Alpine scenery in a bus stuffed with space scientists!
Image: A motley crew. From left to right, Giovanni Vulpetti, Claudio Maccone, Greg Matloff, Les Johnson, as we stood outside the hotel waiting for last night’s banquet to begin. If these guys can’t get us into deep space, nobody can.
Hi Paul
Wow! The heroes themselves! Shame they don’t get more adulation, but then it’s a small world in the Interstellar Conspiracy…
Hi Paul;
Sounds like you are having a great time. This reminds me that I need to visit nothern New England, perhaps northern Maine later this Summer so that I can check out the beautiful night skies. I think there is a meteor shower coming up around August 10, 11.
Anyhow, I am happy that you are having such a great vacation. I showed my mother some of the pictures you posted in yesterdays threat, and she was amazed at the beauty especially the one with the tall mountains in the background.
Regards;
Jim
GLAD TO HEAR it is all going so well!!!!! please keep us advised as you get the chance . have a good time must be neat to be there! your friend george
Sounds like you’re having lots of fun Paul, good to see the A team there too!
Cheers, Paul.