Took the motorway today to try and pick up some extra time in Provence since our time here is so limited. Had a late lunch in Arles, arriving after most of the restaurants and cafes had finished serving lunch. Found a little hole-in-the-wall café that served us a great meal sitting at a tiny table so close to the cobblestoned lane that a truck driver trying to manoeuvre his way past had to bend his side mirror back so it didn’t collect our plates!
Vincent's cafe in Arles - http://www.vggallery.com/painting/p_0467.htm for a comparison :)
Pont du Gard outside Avignon - worth getting stuck in traffic for
Late afternoon peak hour delays in Avignon wouldn’t have mattered except we got completely lost finding our accommodation, zig-zagging the Provençal countryside in pitch blackness for about 3 hours. Our GPS was as bewildered as we were.
Finally had to call our hosts, Marielle and Jean-Claude, who kindly came out to rescue us, and comforted us with beer, a nice cup of tea and a fireside chat in a kind of pidgin Franglish that somehow worked for all of us. Lovely people, and definitely somewhere to come back to for a much longer stay … particularly now that we know how to get there.
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