14 Nov 2013
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Tourist information for Tarascon & St Remy
This will be the last full day (and night) aboard. We go look at the ancient aquaduct Pont du Gard and have free time in Uzes. Lunch on board.
Afternoon, leisure or optional tour of Les Baux & St Remy. Dinner on board, evening at leisure.
Actual:
We did a tour in the morning of Pont du Gard, the magnificent Roman bridge adqueduct that took water from a spring to Nimes, erected in the first century. it’s still standing and mostly intact although not in use. Took a lot of pictures, but the best are those I shot from the shoreline on the far side of the bridge. When you think when it was built, it’s a real treasure.
We had time for shopping there, then went to Uzes and looked around. There, we didn’t find the main shopping street until late in the time we had available for shopping.
We returned then to Avignon. There is a combined dinner meeting this evening at the hotel where the other 3/4 of the passengers are staying. We had a discussion with one couple who is really unhappy with being there.
We skipped the afternoon tour (see above) in favor of a long lunch with the Jacksons in L’Opera on the main square. D & ML had steaks, I had a huge salad & Glenn had some interesting thing, all with wine, for 89.5 Euro. It was really good, and it was nice to have time to do lunch properly with the French.
Then we returned to the hotel and split up until 1600/1630.
We returned to our room and made a list of the stuff we’ve bought so we can make out the declarations form on the plane. Then we packed it all away into luggage to be packed & taken home. It came to €247. We’ve spent $150 so far on bar charges and tips to the ship’s personnel, and we’ll go more than a hundred to the Program Manager Louisa Timmer. It adds up after a while.
Photos Owen
Photos Dolores