Frantour l'Horloge Avignon

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 ...

Wait a minute, we&#8217;re not traveling to Italy until tomorrow&#8230;but we spent the day in Arles exploring Roman architecture. <br><br>The biggest site in town is the amphitheatre, or coliseum. Glimpses through different side streets pull you even closer like the hub it has always been. Huge in scale, some seating is till original and large towers give sweeping views of the ...

... that you&#8217;ve met. <br> The ragged man in ragged clothes.<br> The silver thorn, the bloody rose<br> Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.<br><br>But instead of letting me get down, I will seek out more ancient places and dine in a tucked away jardin savoring the unique tastes of the area, and enjoy the skillful provencal cuisine as I gaze upon the ...

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

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... because she knows she won't sell it this late in the day. Furthermore, wild camping opportunities up in the mountains are always good, and often are perfect 10 locations (note the Lac St. Croix lookout spot!). The grand canyon was nothing short of grand. It is tighter than the American Grand Canyon, and thus not as breathtaking I suppose, but has a more intimate feel. The road goes right up through the canyon and along the canyon walls. You really get a feel for the enormity ...

... but you might want to get a dose of caffeine yourself to get you through the next few pages...) This trip was certainly of a different nature to what we have been used to, just two weeks in Europe in comparison to the luxury of 12 months in Canada. Nevertheless we were determined to not waste a moment and rather than just have a holiday we set off on a real adventure with only a Eurostar train booked for Avignon in France and two weeks later a flight out of ...

... Avignon is famous for a bridge (or "pont" in French), a theater festival and being the home of the Pope for several centuries. You might have sung the nursery rhyme, something about the Pont du Avignon. Although the rhyme sings about dancing on the bridge, this never happened. It was more likely the song is referring to the parties held under the arches of the bridge. Avignon was also the site of the papacy for a few hundred years when the Pope ...

... arched gate. I wheeled under it and found myself in a queue to get into a car park. It was one way in and out so we had to wait for some temporary lights to change whence we drove into an underground car park via the usual ticket machine and boom gate. We emerged from the car park to find ourselves in the middle of a centuries old square with the Palace des Papes towering above us and the cathedral alongside. What I thought was remarkable was that they had dug out a four ...