Auberge De Brantes Vaison-la-Romaine

Plan was to stay in Avignon but when we arrived we decided it was too big for us and after driving around the outide of the ramparts of the old city walls - very cool and the main thing we wanted to see - we made our way onwards to Fontaine de Vaucluse which is 20kms past Avignon. We arrived just before dark and found an Aire de Service at the edge of town where settled in for 2 days. The town ...

... upstairs and then down again to get to our car. This was going to be cumbersome given all our luggage, so we opted to hang out until the next stop, where we got off the train and on again into our correct car. Finally we arrived at our seats and settled in.

We played a card game called "Knock", which was a lot of fun and I'll teach it to you family members over Thanksgiving! Yes Doug and Aunt Virginia, there is ...

found a great little town in Provence.. and as they say "when in Rome (Provence)"... we had a great meal in true french restaurant... happy to be away from tourist food... and had some very nice red wine........ just a stopover but a friendly little place and nice hotel...

on the road again...

... and get the plane to Singapore. We should be sleeping in a hotel bed this time next week at Bintan Island and while this has been a fantastic trip I will be glad of a bigger bed and some luxuries.

Very warm regards to you all - we are missing the dogs heaps and we pat as many here as possible.

More news soon but not sure where from - it may not be until Bintan.

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... the hotel) we were directed to were closed. gotta love france on a sunday.

we stopped by at pont du guard on the way here (really old roman aqueduct) which still blows my mine every time i see it. defo a must see in this area.

so i have been trying to muster up the courage to call the french family i lived with when i was here in school, but have not yet figured out how to say hi, remember me, its been 15 ...

... in Asian restaurants and we didn't feel that was very authentic (oh, and they wouldn't let us share - they tried to make us order a plate each, no thanks!) so we ended up at a little cafe ordering hamburgers..... which came out as a half-cooked mince meat patty thing.. quite unappealing. But doused in a whole lot of sauce they were edible and we were on our way to continue exploring Avignon (read: find an internet cafe to satisfy our facebook cravings ...

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... gaan nemen. Wat we ook deden. We waren over (ofja onder..) de draad geklommen en ons tussen de koeien gemengd. Er zaten ook nog jonge koetjes tussen dus de moeders waren ietsje aggressiever dan normaal. Er stond ook een stier tussen. Ik liep daar tussen met men rode tshirt..dat was geen goed idee. We hebben dan ook een paar keer een sprintje moeten inzetten...na 10m gaven ze echter al op en waren wij al ribbedebie. Na dit avontuur ...

... a great time there. An innocent flirt and not much else. In this respect, me and Tormod are a bit different. He was already planning ahead using his lonely planet to find interesting sites in Rome and here in Nice. Afternoons are spent eating exquisite french food, and strolling around Nice, enjoying the climate which is quite different from what we're used to. I experience what sweating in the evening means. Right. One event I do remember from Nice was ...