Day 4 ... Avignon Gourmet Tour

Recycling is SUPER simple!

Stephen Colbert? Splendid!

Back at the villa ...

Day 3 ... Inside the Walls of Avignon Part 2 ... Tour of Palais des Papes

Playing with food at breakfast.

 

Each day we have breakfast & dinner for 19 at the chateau prepared by Chef Gerard.

Day 2 ... Inside the Walls of Avignon (Palais des Papes & Tour of Pont Saint-Bénézet)

Palais des Papes (Palace of the Popes)

View of the palace from Pont Saint-Bénézet

Pont Saint-Bénézet ... spanning the Rhone between Villeneuve-lès-Avignon & Avignon was built between 1177 and 1185. This early bridge was destroyed forty years later during the Albigensian Crusade.

Bikes of Avignon

 

Arrival in France

After arriving at Charles de Gaulle I walked across the airport to the train station.

 

Avignon was a few hours away via the high speed TGV train.

I was the first one to arrive at Château d'Avignon (real name ... Château de La Vernède). Nineteen of us should be pretty comfortable in this huge 10 bedroom, 11 bathroom villa. Sandy & Larry's 50th wedding anniversary celebration has officially begun!

 The grounds are beautiful but I was ready for a nap.