Nice place...

Day 3 - Moulins to Avignon
So here we are in Avignon. We ended up taking the autoroute and tolls towards the end, which was pretty hard going, especially as the temperature was incredible, with no relief to be found at any speed. Bad times.

Flat exterior
The flat is lovely, although getting to it was a bit of a struggle. The AirBnB lady was very sweet, but we couldn't work out where she was, and didn't really understand the requirement to park in the underground garage outside the town walls. Got there eventually though. The garage has a tunnel that goes under the walls and emerges in the middle of town - cool. In fact, it was most welcome :->.

The flat is on the 2nd floor, above the oldest restaurant in Avignon - Hiely Lucullus. Maybe we'll try it out at some point. The land lady lives in the flat above, which is handy. There are three bedrooms, with incredible high ceilings, it's a classic French city building!

Living Room

My Bedroom 



















And we ate in one of the restaurants in the helpful book in the flat. Nice food, cool indoors, great service - Ron declared the cheesecake the best he'd ever eaten in his life - some praise!

Dinner

Diner view

And like all old cities, Avignon has some strange twists, turns and nighttime sights...

Mysterious tree

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