Sur le pont d'Avignon

We spent a day exploring Avignon.  The boys often sing the "Sur le pont d'Avignon" song, so it was fun to visit it.  I had no idea it doesn't even cross the river any more.  The really impressive thing in the town was "Le Palais des Papes" http://whc.unesco.org/fr/list/228.  It was the home for Popes in the 13th and 14th centuries and the tour was amazing.  There was hardly anyone there, and we were accompanied nearly all the way by the palace cat, Clementine, and a very enthusiastic tour guide who was kind enough to assume I understood his detailed explanations of papal life delivered in rapid French.  Avignon itself was amazing too.

Andy sur le pont d'Avignon (with the plastic sword he hasn't put down since buying it in Carcassone)

View of the pont from le Palais des papes

 Both boys sur le pont with le palais in the background

Andy is helping me with this blogpost and wanted this one of him sous le pont so you can see the bricks of the pont

Some photos from Le Palais des Papes