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205 Rue J.M. Tjibaou, Zac De Courtines 2 Avignon, Provence, France, 84000, 33-891705171
... built in the 1st or 2nd Century and held 20,000. It was used for chariot races and gladiator fights and is still in use today during the bullfighting season. Very cool! Forgot to take a photo unfortunately.
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Up early to make use of free Wifi - that is Kim watched the sunrise while sitting outside a closed café and scabbing their Wifi! We then we hightailed it out of Arles and towards Spain.
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 ...
Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France darrenhough74... didn’t even really resist. They knew the status to being ’Roman’ and that it would bring them instant infrastructure, roads, money, etc.
But enough of all this Roman talk - we’re in France after all! Italy will come when we set sail tomorrow night. For now we’re dining on our last few snipits of cheese, provincial bread and aioli sauce.
... a painting. But instead of letting that get to me, I will sink myself into the paintings and see the world the way Vincent would have liked.
Colours changing hue.
Morning fields of amber red.
Weathered faces lined in pain
And soothed beneath the artist’s loving hand.
Envious of the painter’s ability to tweak ...
May 23rd Lattenbrunnen to Avignon freeway freeway freeway and then a little more freeway, Avignon seems very nice impressive stone work and completed in a very orderly timeframe 30 years app if only my foot wasn't so sore from walking up the swiss alps then i'd probably be able to enjoy it a little more, ah well need an excuse for an early and sober night.
Avignon, Provence, France philwoodside... Avignon. Quando a gente coloca o nome só da cidade ele automaticamente coloca como endereço o centro da cidade. A viagem até lá foi tranqüila, demorou umas 3 ou 4 horas, não lembro mais. Chegando lá deixamos o carro num estacionamento fora do "centro histórico" - parte cercada pelos muros antigos. Avignon eh famosa por ter sido a unica cidade que foi sede do papado fora da Italia. Foi uma época que tinham dois papas ...
Avignon, Provence, France erikapessoa... into the hillside. there are also a couple of old stone bridges that go over the river Rhone, just at the edge of the town. Avignon is very beautiful. out hotel room was quite nice as well. this morning we head to Nice. the hostel Taylore booked is 1 minute from the beach, i am so excited. we are staying 2 night in Nice and doing a day trip to Monaco tomorrow i think, should be really nice.
Avignon, France bradentaylor84Avignon was a trip to visit Mr. Pierre Scerri who built the 1/3 scale Ferrari 312PB race car model. check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Sce rri we saw the Pope's other house and went to the country side with Pierre to drink wine and to talk about his car.
Avignon, France nanoguy
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