If the French had no idea how to run the Palace at Versailles as a tourist icon, someone must have taught them something on our train trip down from Paris to Avignon. The Palace is situated inside the old walled city of Avignon, a site well worth visiting in its own right. The Palace was the home to four Popes in the middle ages and the Palace has been well if not ostentatiously preserved and the visit comes with a very well presented audio tour that provides a good description of the palace and its history in user selectable detail.
We found the little GPS system a “god-send’. It worked perfectly to steer us around through the maze of one way streets that is the walled city of Avignon.
We left Avignon and headed out to the Village of Gordes in the hills on the way to Aix Provence. The little village is spectacular in the extreme.
We also found our way to the wonderful little deserted Village of Bories before heading home through the mountains pass the Monastery of …… and the Popes summer residence at Seqret. 
We returned once again to the same restaurant on the terrace overlooking the roman bridge. Bernadette has threatened divorce if I explain any of the details surrounding the photograph of her in the restaurant. 
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