Central Avignon
31/33 Porte de la Republique Avignon, Provence, 84000, France
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Amsterdam to Avignon
Checked out of hostel in A'dam and hopped the high speed train to Paris. Wow, it's way faster than I Imagined! Bought Paris Metro tickets right on the train. Paris subway smelled like every other subway in the world, tres mal! Fairly easy to find our way around... had to take Metro to another station, Gare de Lyon, in the southern part of town. …
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24 décembre : Visite aux Baux-de-Provence
C'est la veille de Noël ce qui signifie que notre principale activité aujourd’hui sera de nous goinfrer en fin de soirée. Cela nous laisse donc le champ libre pour aller explorer un brin la Provence, d’autant que les magasins sont pratiquement tous fermés aujourd’hui. Il fait encore très beau aujourd’hui mais le Mistral souffle à pleins poumons. Comme le dit la chanson, il faudra bien se couvrir ! Nous choisissons d’aller ...
23 décembre : Préparation du Réveillon
... visiter le boucher de Patricia pour compléter les achats. Pendant que Sabine et Pat sont dans la boucherie, j’en profite pour faire un petit tout du cœur historique du village à la recherche de la maison de Nostradamus. Je ne l’ai pas trouvé mais j’en ai profité pour me balader un peu et profiter du beau ...
Ru-eens
... shrouded in scaffolding and there's a lot of sandblasting going on.) During Roman times, they hosted gladiator fights and other such entertainments there. Today, they apparently still use it to host Spanish-style bull fighting and the names of the past champions are inscribed around the field. (They have installed bleachers, but in some of the middle sections you can still sit on the Roman stone)
Our admission to the colosseum also got us in ...
Sur le Pont d'Avignon
... bridge that formerly crossed the Rhone river (it has since mostly fallen down), with many legends and also ties to the economic and cultural growth of the region. After Le Pont we strolled around the cathederale and jardins adjacent to the Palais, just in time for sunset and some gorgeous photo ops of Avignon, Villeneuve, and Ile de Piot.
As twilight surrounded us, we found a Christmas street fair being held in front of the Hotel de Ville. We got ...



