Here I find myself again struggling to begin the week’s story. This week was all spent in Avignon, working long days and stealing some time in the evenings and weekends to explore. Last weekend’s activities were certainly a success. On Saturday we got some much needed extra sleep in the morning, then headed into the old city center of Avignon, which is surrounded by an impressive 14th century city wall. Parking, and indeed driving in general in such a place is an interesting challenge as the streets were definitely originally made for people on foot and horses… which is to say they are excessively narrow for cars. However I managed to park safely (in our new, and thankfully MUCH smaller rental car, our old one was a sort of SUV which was necessary for all of
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