The standard of Auberges de Jeunesse in France is deteriorating badly. Over many years, a lifetime in fact, I have seen the decline. They cannot continue much longer without a major improvement programme. Neither are they a fraction of the price of a small hotel. I recommend against staying at the Arles Auberge.
Cycle paths follow the Rhone upstream. At Beaucaire the rivers divides for a stretch and this is where Hannibal's army and elephants spent 5 days crossing on raft constructions. Almost impossible to imagine witnessing the volume of waters to cross. A couple of hundred years later the Romans built a crossing here as part of the Via Domitia. That road and the Via Aurelia connecting Rome through Gaul to Spain.
Avignon ia an amazing walled city and outside those walls the metro runs smoothly through manicured lawns.
No time for the best Chateauneuf du Pape.
And did you dance ‘sur le pont d’Avignon’?!
ReplyDeleteIt was too hot to do a turn 'sur le pont'
DeleteNice buildings in that pic and I’ve never seen a metro track on a manicured lawn until this pic. I Hope you are ok re energy etc… you have cycled so far! 馃槏馃馃徏
ReplyDeleteIt's a great idea to soften the landscape
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