Some people go on vacation to relax and then return to work refreshed. We go on vacation to exhaust every drop of energy while seeing the world. Wow, am I pooped.
We had a delightful lunch with Nathalie of Avignon In Photos, winner of the coveted Blog Of Note award, and then walked around the old city with her as our guide. Then we did the Papal Palace (not everyone knows that the papacy decamped from Rome and made Avignon its HQ for almost a century), then the Pont Saint-Benezet, the famous structure that goes half-way across the Rhone and then just stops. There's a story about that but I'm too tired to to look up a link.
Above, an alley in the old city.
Below:
The Avignon Vision tourist tram.
Two views of the guitarist we saw yesterday, one taken from high up on the parapets of the palace.
Lovers beside the Rhone.
The Pont Saint-Benezet, the palace and Notre dame des Domes cathedral.
Day trip to Chateau Neuf du Pape and wherever else today.
