October 10 & 11:
Avignon & Pont du Gard:Better weather today, and we have made friends with Daisy the Crazy dog. Daisy is our vacuum cleaner, the owner’s dog, but is shared around the villas here. We were off to Avignon, a very strategic city, it was basically Rome in the 13th to 15th centuries it housed the ruling Popes before the uprising of the people. So we did the tour of the Palais du Papes, it is nothing like the Vatican, it is very big, but sparse and modest in comparison, (see pics) it has been stripped bare, only a very few frieze’s and wall painting exist, still fascinating history, and a very cute town (see Pics).
Today (Tuesday) was off to another village market (Tarascon) bought our produce for the next 2 days. Then off to Pont du Gard and then Nimes. Pont du Gard, is still an amazing engineering feat today, water bought from here to Nimes 28 km’s away, 2000 years ago. The Romans knew how to do stuff (see pics). Then we headed to Nimes, to see the Arena, and gardens, but when we got there there was a huge demonstration (because they want to change the retirement age). This caused major traffic problems and we spent an hour trying to get near the centre of town and park.
We finally did, and I didn’t take any pics here as I had last time we were here. Tomorrow I think the two girls are doing horse riding, I’ trying to con Sharon to be my caddy and we do golf,(not working so far)..
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