We visited the supermarket for breakfast.
We'd seen signs for the Renoir exhibit in Martigny all up and down the
Rhone valley since we arrived in Switzerland. Kent had already
spent Thursday night in Martigny while I was in Champex. We
decided to see the Renoir exhibit and (re-) visit the Roman ruins.
8:34am
View from our balcony
9:05am
I bought a drawing of the Alps and the Rhone valley that showed the
entire Haute Route - you can see the map in the bottom right corner of
this picture. Someday maybe I'll get it properly framed and hung.
Not too likely, since I still have a similar map from my 2005 European
trip that shows the Alps and that train trip, and that map still sits
rolled up in my garage.
9:05am
9:10am
More taxidermy at the butcher shop than you see in the States...
9:11am
9:11am
9:19am
9:26am
We said goodbye to the Hotel Popcorn and Saas Fee and headed back to
the Rhone Valley. It was supposed to rain the next few days so we
were in no real hurry to leave the sunshine behind.
9:27am
10:13am
10:14am
We arrived in Martigny and headed to the TI. There were two cheap
hotels in Martigny and Kent had already stayed in one, so we picked the
other one.
12:31pm
The rainy view from our room, looking southeast toward the French
border and Chamonix. While we had to walk to the other end of
town to get to our hotel, Kent says the room was much bigger than
his room from the first Martigny hotel.
The intersection below appeared to be the busiest and loudest in town, but the windows kept out most of the traffic noise.
2:04pm
Checking out the Roman ruins
No, Ceasar didn't live here.
2:09pm
2:23pm
The Renoir exhibit was at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda musuem.
The main floor of the museum contains Roman artifacts, which were
interesting but not spectacular if you've already seen lots of Roman
exhibits like both Kent and I have.
Blurry iPhone picture of Roman artifact
The Renoirs were in the 'basement', and the collection was
stunning.
I
expected the museum to have perhaps 10 or 20 paintings and then a
collection of other stuff to fill up space.
Instead there were
over
100 Renoirs, and they stunning.
One of the finest exhibits I've ever seen.
Perhaps the most memorable was Pink and Blue.
While they didn't have his most famous pieces from L'Orangerie, they more than enough.
3:28pm
The Roman Arena
3:58pm
Somehow Kent managed to find a cafe that served wine in Martigny...(that's Kent under the awning)
We had dinner at Le Loup Blanc
Kent had Syrah and Le Cheesburger, I had Rosti and 1/2L of beer
6:37pm
6:38pm
6:38pm
6:38pm
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Zermatt, Breithorn, and Saas Fee
