Friday, October 20, 2006
Sunday 15/10 Exploring Avignon
Avignon is a great base. Central, used to we boring monolinguists (well not rude anyway), and pretty to boot.
Had a nice sleep in this morning...it is Sunday afterall. I'm very lucky the hostel has me in a dorm on my own. So bargain room rate. A bit of a walk into town but a great view of the old town, walls and bridge as you cross the Rue Rhone.
Sorted all my admin needs this morning, including fiding another bed for Mon & Tues night as the hostel has groups in.
Explored the covered food market and bought some fresh salmon quiche and tomatos and dates to top up my food supplies. I've decided France should give up on history and just concentrate on food and street life! Sat on the river bank with my picnic lunch and enjoyed the continuing sunshine and the view.
Visited Palais de Popes and Pont Saint Benezet, the two main attractions in Avignon. Both had English audio guides but actually quite boring as little of the fixtures and fittings are left, just empty stone rooms. The Popes Palace is very success in reinforcing my view that the Catholic Church has concentrated wealth in their power for centuries and it was/is to their buraucracy's advantage to continue this disproportionate distribution of funds. Obscene. Just as bad as Marie and Louis, only worse because these men were supposed to live by the holy orders including poverty...
Survived until 5pm without a coffee and thoroughly enjoyed my legal drug high at my now 'local' Salon de The'. I was ready for bed and now alive again. ready for diary writing in the cyber cafe...
Avignon is a great base. Central, used to we boring monolinguists (well not rude anyway), and pretty to boot.
Had a nice sleep in this morning...it is Sunday afterall. I'm very lucky the hostel has me in a dorm on my own. So bargain room rate. A bit of a walk into town but a great view of the old town, walls and bridge as you cross the Rue Rhone.
Sorted all my admin needs this morning, including fiding another bed for Mon & Tues night as the hostel has groups in.
Explored the covered food market and bought some fresh salmon quiche and tomatos and dates to top up my food supplies. I've decided France should give up on history and just concentrate on food and street life! Sat on the river bank with my picnic lunch and enjoyed the continuing sunshine and the view.
Visited Palais de Popes and Pont Saint Benezet, the two main attractions in Avignon. Both had English audio guides but actually quite boring as little of the fixtures and fittings are left, just empty stone rooms. The Popes Palace is very success in reinforcing my view that the Catholic Church has concentrated wealth in their power for centuries and it was/is to their buraucracy's advantage to continue this disproportionate distribution of funds. Obscene. Just as bad as Marie and Louis, only worse because these men were supposed to live by the holy orders including poverty...
Survived until 5pm without a coffee and thoroughly enjoyed my legal drug high at my now 'local' Salon de The'. I was ready for bed and now alive again. ready for diary writing in the cyber cafe...
# posted by The Essence of Good Taste @ 2:32 PM 
