My next day’s touring took me to nearby Avignon. Arles, Nîmes & Avignon are all about 20 minutes from each other by train. So I decided to save touring my home base of Arles for Sunday, when the train service is less frequent.Avignon is a fairly large medieval city still surrounded entirely by it’s old [...]
Archive for March, 2007
After my late-night arrival, I got up early the next morning and hopped a train from Arles to Nîmes.Nîmes was an ancient Roman city of some importance. It’s two major sights (an arena and a temple) are both notable for being among the (if not the) best preserved examples of their respective types of Roman [...]
What is the difference between Paris, France and Frankfurt, Germany? Well, let’s face it. There are many. But at the moment the one I’m most interested in is that one is the city I was supposed to fly into and the other is the city that I actually flew into. My flight out of St. [...]
