Category Avignon
Europe 2017 – The Legend of Jenny Manetta
August 24 – November 15 As promised (threatened?) in the last post, I’d like to talk a bit about Jenny Manetta, who we’ve referred to quite a few times while we recounted our month with the Greeks, and for those of you whose heads are spinning as I’ve time shifted major sections of the blog […]
Europe 2017 – Summary, Part Five
August 24 – November 15 The final country we’d spend time in is one we continue to find fascinating and wonder how we’ve let it slip past us during the course of our many visits to Europe. This would be France. Although we’d been to Paris many times when stopping in to see Francois and […]
Europe 2017 – Montpellier, Part Seven
November 8-11 We had a cup of coffee (a welcome change from the Nescafe packaged drink we bought each night at the market) in the breakfast room at Les Nevons before departing for Avignon and the train to Montpellier. This all went smoothly, retracing our steps and the familiar sites taking much of the anxiety […]
Europe 2017 – Provence Part Four
November 2 – 7 We had another full day ahead of us that Monday, so we didn’t waste much time in the morning, eating breakfast in the room, checking out of the Best Western and walking back to the Arles train station to ride up to Avignon and get the rental car from Hertz. We […]
Europe 2017 – Provence Part Three
November 2 – 7 We left the Palace of the Popes and made our way, after a couple of stops to view places listed in the tour (Church of St. Pierre: The original walnut doors were carved in 1551, Place des Châtaignes: The cloister of St. Pierre, 15th-Century Building: With its original beamed eaves showing, […]
Europe 2017 – Provence Part Two
November 2 – 7 We arose early the next day and were out the door before the sun was up, although this late in the season it didn’t usually rise until well after 7am. On the way to the train station for our short trip up to Avignon we passed by stalls being set up […]
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