Avignon: the city of the popes (and now us...)

08:04 mareku 0 Comments

Via Orange (with its nice Roman gate) we are now in Avignon: the old Medieval town where once the pope fled to when Rome was under siege. It hasn't changed much - except for the tons of tourists of course. That's also the downside: although pretty in some places it has been overrun with the tourist industry and it actually is a sort of medieval Disney world. Luckily we stayed in a very nice cloister turned hotel. The not so nice thing was however that it was scorching hot and that the airco couldn't cope with that and the mosquito's took advantage of our open windows in the night :-(
Hurray for our Swedish Lapland mosquito bite tonic lotion - which soften the itching and swelling.