Yes, we made it to Avignon!
We had rain most of the day and we're all tired and soaked and SO glad Amanda our guide let us have an early night.
We visted Palais des Papes, the magnificent castle within the walled city of Avignon. I love this city. it is AMAZING architecture - you can really see the Italian influence in the buildings. There are 7 entrances to the city and 39 watch towers. Amazing! Because of the rain we didn't go ON the bridge like the old song but instead we went UNDER the bridge. We did sing a chorus of the song... just for you ;-) since you couldn't be here to sing it with us. This is one place I would love to return to as well. It is just gorgeous and there are lots of wonderful little shops and restaurants. We found that the people here are much more friendly than in Paris. They were wonderful with Matt and I at lunch today as I ordered our lunch and then had a discussion with the cafe owner about where we come from. Turns out - HE PLAYS ICE HOCKEY in MONTREAL some times. He also told us that this was an "unfortunate day to be in his city" because it is normally warm and very sunny but today was cold and rainy. He even apologized. I ate an amazing Pea Soup! YUMMY. Not as thick as the French Canadian Pea soup but so very tasty. Matt had a nice pasta with meat sauce and it was quite tasty as well.
For diner I had a wonderful mean of soup a l'onion gratinee (better than the last one I had so it was DELICIOUS), Salad Nicoise as my plat principal and creme caramel for dessert... disappointed in the creme - it wasn't smooth at all for a custard but it was tasty non-the less.
It's an early night tonight and I'm going to take advantage of it.
Tomorrow we go to the winery and another stop at Pont de Gard then home for a bit of free time and our second group dinner of the tour. The next day we leave for Nice.
Sorry - internet is slow and takes WAY too long to load up the pictures so I'll try to add some before we leave for Nice. No guarantees on the internet connectivity though as I believe we only get 24 hours free....
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