Mignon Avignon

... over 1.5 million tourists each year as it is the source of a natural spring. It's wierd seeing a fast flowing river and then walking 50 metres "upstream" and there only being a trickle.. and then a bit further and no water... nothing but a big cliff straight up! <br><br>The town itself is nestled in a valley and is particularly pretty at dusk when rocks take on the colours of the sunset ...

... and Rhone. Built in 90 AD it&#8217;s hard to imagine all the events that have taken place in this building. Walking around and around, I tried to imagine it filled with 20 000 screaming fans as gladiators ripped apart animals, but it was hard. From Medieval times to the 1830&#8217;s, it was bricked up and used as a fortified city. 212 housed and 2 churches made their home ...

... 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. <br><br> Colours changing hue. <br> Morning fields of amber red.<br> Weathered faces lined in pain<br> And soothed beneath the artist&#8217;s loving hand. <br><br>Envious of the painter&#8217;s ability to tweak ...

... is only half a bridge, which is visually interesting, and a popular French children's song which encourages dancing on the top.<br><br>Just downriver from the bridge to nowhere is a free water taxi. How could I not? I hopped on and enjoyed the view for the 3 minutes or so that it took to cross. From the far side I saw a building that looked like a castle. Why not walk there? I started off gamely ...

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... lesson from him!). It was fascinating to me to hear the German story of the Nazi's rise to power and as Munich was where the Nazi party was formed it was an excellent backdrop to try to begin to understand more. As well as the war there was of course a lot of information on the other thing that Munich is famous for...beer! We combined the two things we had learnt about from our tour and afterwards sat in an outdoor beer garden with big glass jugs of beer ...

... cool, and there are not many tourists yet. Also, it is market day. I lightened up on breakfast this AM, and feel as if I could actually down a cookie or biscuit, but didn't buy one as time was short. Some years ago my friend Jane brought me some ochre colored pastels from Roussillion, and I wanted to buy more, but didn't find what I wanted. They had small jars of pigments stacked and wrapped together, but I wasn't sure ...