Wow the ground of our campsite was hard. I'm glad I've been practicing sleeping on my back (I'm one of those 'on-my-side' sleepers) because my hips definitely couldn't have handled that ground.
We awoke in the morning to one of the nicest, warmest days we've had on this trip (have I mentioned that it has rained in every other city we visited thus far?). The campsight offered chocolate crossaints for €1,20 for breakfast (these things were Heavenly) and we decided today would be a good day to relax and enjoy the sunshine.
We asked the attendant for advice, wanting a nice place to go lay out by the river. Instead we received him plugging his nose, telling us the river was polluted and smelly, and instead telling us to go to the campsight pool. I am one to listen to advice of the locals, so pool it was, where we layed in the sun, letting our skin soak up its first vitamin D in a long while.
In the afternoon we ventured to town and wandered the city. Avignon was at one time home to the Pope, and remains a fortified city to this day. A 50 foot tall wall surrounds the main city, inside of which there is a beautiful maze of cobbled streets, fancy shops, and lots of ice cream parlors.
We spent a few hours wandering the town until we followed the sign offering one of the best wine-tastings in Avignon. The friendly lady at the shop gave us a sampling of three local wines and then pointed us to her favorite bottle of local red wine, a 2001 Domaine St Pierre, Cotes Du Rhone.
Wine in hand we made our way home for dinner and our local sampling of flavorful wine. In the front garden of the reception we played a really unfortunate game of scrabble while enjoying the wine and talking about our trip.
The next evening after I made a quick trip to Carpenteria to visit with an alum, we would head to Italy and visit an old friend Pierpaolo in Treviso.
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