The MOJO Family: One night in Avignon, France

October 24, 2022

One night in Avignon, France

Avignon, France

We had one night in Avignon and one morning to explore. We enjoyed having a little apartment in the old city where we could walk around the narrow streets and find our way around. We were very happy that there were real grocery stores close by to purchase enough to make our own dinner and breakfast in our little kitchen.

Jason and I went for a lovely circle run around the outside of the city walls, although it was too bad that we couldn’t walk or run ON the city walls (like we could in Saint Malo or Carcassonne). We saw the bridge ‘to nowhere’ that goes half way into the river now.

In the morning we walked to the “Palais du Papes” but decided not to pay 45 euro for a family ticket to enter. We are all feeling like we have had our fill of castles and old buildings and monuments. But seeing the outside of the palace, the square, and the adjacent gardens, was beautiful. We enjoyed eating our ‘second breakfast’ sugar crepes while overlooking the river and lovely view from the upper gardens.

We walked through the old town narrow streets and then along “Rue des Teinturiers”, which is pretty along the canal. There wasn’t anything happening on a Monday morning in October, but I think on a summer afternoon in July it would be packed with theatre activities and café patio ambiance.

All in all this was a really cute little place and we can see why people like it so much.

We had originally thought we would go an explore the nearby village of Arles, but we decided we didn’t feel up for another Roman amphitheatre or more churches or baths… we are getting to be pretty tired travelers since we’ve been going hard with these sites over the last week or so.

So we grabbed a train for Montpellier and headed that way.