Day 77 St. Tropez to Nimes

Wednesday February 20th

Again we woke to glorious weather. On the way out of town we stop for a road map of France.

Our next stop is Avignon, a walled city built in the mid 13th century. I guess the bridge at Avignon is part of a famous nursery rhyme – which none of us had ever heard.

We walked around the town and our plan was to eat lunch here and move on.

The first place we sat down at was very expensive and was not serving the formulae or set menu since it was already a little after 2pm. We decided to move on and next door we found a set menu.

Following lunch we visited the Musee Angladon – a donated private collection from Jaques Doucet (1853-1929). There was a Van Gogh – Railway Cars, works by Picasso, Vegas, Manet. A nice collection – I imagine what it would be lie to be surrounded by such works at my own house. The Picasso piece was my favorite a small painting of a guitar on a chair but I could look at it for ours. The Van Gogh used the natural color of the canvas to represent some of the red earth in the painting by leaving it bare of paint.

Allysha rode the carousel in the town square and then we headed off to Nimes. Most of the drive we tried to figure out how to pronounce Nime – we decided on "neem".

Another beautiful drive which we made relatively error free and we stayed in Hotel Central.

Pam got cheese and sausages for dinner which we ate in the room.

The room was comfortable – but a great deal at 51 Euro.

We make plans fot the next day – we need to try to get an earlier start – our ours have shifted to getting up late in the morning and staying up late.

I have not had internet for some time now – I notice I feel very disconnected from the rest of the world without this access.

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