30 September 2009

Medieval France

After Tim and Eglantines wedding, we spent the rest of the week staying in an apartment in Saint-Remy de Provence. It’s a central point for reaching the string of medieval towns in Provence. We visited the fantastic city of Avignon, toured the great papal palace, one of the largest and most impressive medieval Gothic buildings I’ve ever seen and walked on the famous bridge, Le Pont d'Avignon. We went to see the great roman aqueduct at Pont-du-Gard. It was great weather and we had Liam in the carrier and sat by the river, ate our lunch and threw stones into the river.
The apartment was very well equipped and was in a renovated farm house in a quiet location just outside the town. We had a BBQ one evening by the pool and enjoyed the relatively warm evening. On our last day we went to Niemes and bumped into Diana and John outside the tourist centre. We walked around the old city, looked at the Amphitheatre and had lunch in a park. After, we drove to Marseille airport to catch our flight back to Stockholm.






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