Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Spent the day exploring Avignon. A visit to the Palais du Papes. The palace of the popes. A huge castle of a structure with not much in it. Then a quick visit to the Petit Palais, which had some Botticelli paintings. A tour of the local market building, which involved a half dozen oysters and then a quick crepe for lunch and a nap, it was off to the famous Avignon bridge. Originally built in the 13 century, it got wiped out by flooding a number of times, and eventually in 1686, they stopped rebuilding it. It was quite a feat though, as it was almost 1km long and had 22 arches. At the moment only 4 survive. Found a nice restaurant for dinner and had an excellent lamb shank and green salad. A brief rain shower came off and on through dinner but weather is forecast to be sunny again tomorrow. See dinner pictures here: Restaurants

Palace of the popes

Live wall of central market building.