Hello :)
I hope you don't mind my muddled up English. I'm native German and sometimes my English do...
Hello :)
I hope you don't mind my muddled up English. I'm native German and sometimes my English doesn't 'flow' too well :).
Member since:14.01.2006
Reviews:4
Hubbie and I have been in Avignon for a week and we came back last Thursday with some regrets.....
... let me tell you so that you don't do the same mistakes....
Avignon is a very interesting city in the Provence, South of France. Famous for the un-repaired bridge and the Pope Palace, Avignon offers culture and lots of restaurants.
Hubbie and I like eating - and we spent half a monthly wage and nearly all our time in restaurants. DON'T DO THIS! Hubbie and I like to explore new places on our own - without maps and usually we get lost in some ugly suburbs. DON'T DO THIS! Hubbie and I used the last hour before our flight home to have a sight-seeing trip on the little train-car. DON'T DO THIS!
If you go to Avignon, please please have a trip with the train-car on your first day and have a look at the Palace of the Popes! Don't eat all the time - save some of your day to see the interesting culture (most museums have free entry on Saturdays).
We stayed at a nice hotel on the Place L'horlonge - only a 3 minutes walk away from the Palace and we thought it was just a tourist-attraction - some old house with some statues. So we didn't bother to have a further look. Instead we ate froglegs, squids, mussels, cheese, tarts....etc.etc. and we drank incredible cheap but nice red wine each day. Don't get me wrong, the food was great, but we missed out so much.
In front of the Palace of the Popes is a long car that looks like a train. You pay 7 Euro each and you get driven to all the nice places in Avignon. The drive takes 40 minutes and we did it on our departure day because we just couldn't eat anymore and we needed to kill an hour. Sitting in this tourist-car/train our jaws dropped. We passed the nicest places - hidden away, only minutes from our hotel!
Please, do some sight-seeing and don't eat nonstop like we did!
We've seen one nice place though .... but only because I had some constipation and needed to get out of the restaurant-chair. Hubby proposed to go to the opposite site of the Rhone and we walked over two bridges to a village called Villeneuve-lez-Avignon. A lovely place with medivial houses and a very interesting graveyard.
Avignon has an strange smell - some parts smell like cinnamon, other parts smell like pee. If you like shopping, you like Avignon - but if you are above size 12 - you don't! The French ladies seem to be very very slim (how do they manage this with all the nice food?) and all clothing I liked was size 6-10 (pretty disappointing really).
Southampton offers a direct flight to Avignon and taxi from A-Airport to the city is 25 Euro - it's really worth going. But do the tourist-sightseeing!!!!
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Sep 26th, 2006
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