9 january 2011
We slept in a bit in Avignon, then started out to find something to do. We planned to tour Avignon on Sunday the 9th, and Nîmes on Monday, leaving for Barcelona on Monday night.
The museum Lapidaire wasn’t open when we started out, so we wandered off towards the market, which was full of delicious looking foods (and a used book market). Then we headed to the train station, where the train schedules quickly changed our travel plans. We decided to visit Nîmes that afternoon, so we could leave for Barcelona on Monday morning at the ungodly hour of 6 a.m. We raced up to the palais de pape, where we didn’t enter, but did meander through it’s park and admire its view of the countryside. We found a myrtle tree too, with beautiful smelling seeds.
We picked up some bread and cheese at the market on the way back to the train station, and hopped the commuter train to Nîmes. The cheese was very strong, but delicious. In Nîmes, we investigated Maisson Carree, an ancient roman temple that had a modern architectural partner. The buses weren’t running to pont’du gard, the aqueduct Caroline wanted to see, so we wandered around Nîmes until our train left for Avignon.
Being Sunday, the night's sugary search left us crepe-less, and thus I must wait til Paris to fill the crepe-shaped hole in my heart.
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