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17th June 260km
Got our act together this morning & got up early enough to get croissants (they've all gone by 8.30am most mornings). Packed up the van ready for a quick departure, then walked into Avignon to sight see. Decided to take one of the tourist trains (Drum seemed to like it). It was a good way to see it all in an hour. Steeped with history, the city goes back centuries, the bridge was abandoned in the 11th century, the building of the bridge is only mentioned in folklore . Passed the markets which have 'living art' all over the front done by some famous French artist bloke. The whole city is walled and full of amazing architecture, lots of medieval/ gothic buildings. We took a walk along what is left of the bridge, originally it had 22 arches but there are only 4 left, the rest of it was washed away in floods & heavy currents of the Rhone. (cheers all you Cotes du Rhone drinkers).
Headed off towards Nice at 2pm. Breaking our rule on motorway travel today to get some miles done. Want to make Italy by the weekend and could do with a chill out day to catch some rays. Weather hot, sunny & Mediterranean, temp 37ºc today!
Drums Dog Blog
"No, no,please don't make me go in that thing….(bad dreams). Can you believe what they made me do?They made me go in some pathetic tourist pretend train around some older than the bone I buried in the garden type buildings, where the whole of the world stared at me and laughed.I had to hide under the seat in shame.The whole of the dog world were saying , "Look at that stupid English Boxer and his b****es".I said, "No photos please", but they took no notice.I'm not smiling in those photos, I'm pulling a face in the hope that no-one recognises me! Too late…., they've published them and I'll have to face Tilly and the Mambies when I get back.I've street cred to live up to - then, as if that wasn't bad enough,they went and bought me a white Mozzie collar, which looks like some skinny French tart's belt round my neck.I look a right t*** in this! Give me some red meat and couple of French Poodles to shag before my whole street cred goes out the window completely…….in fact, just give me a couple of those sausages there and all is forgiven.
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