Arles and the Pont D'Avignon

So I was pretty sick on Saturday morning so I stayed in my room....I went out to the pharmacy to buy some meds, then went for a little walk. I was feeling a little better in the PM, so Maureen, Renee, Genevieve and I hopped on a train to Arles. Here are a few pictures:

the Arenes

The cafe Van Gogh made famous in one of his paintings:

The garden of his asylum when he went crazy:

A wedding we ran across:

Since I wasn't sure how I would feel today, I decided not to accompany a couple of people to L'Ile sur Sorgue which is about 20 mins away by train because they planned to bike 20 miles and I wasn't sure I'd feel up to it in the heat, so I opted to stay home :-(   I slept in until 9:00 then took a walk to Les Halles to see the daily indoor market, then walked all the way up to the Palais des Papes. I stopped in the Romanesque Cathedrale de Notre Dame de Doms......more of a small Romanesque church, not all all what you think of for a European cathedral: Here is the altar:

And here you can see some of the original painting on the walls. The church was started in the early 1100's



I then went to the park nearby to read for awhile because I am behind on my reading, When nature called, this is what I found:

Good thing I had kleenex in my purse.

Next I went to visit the Pont d'Avignon. Here is a better picture of the bridge: I must make a correction, the bridge was partially destroyed and rebuilt several times, with the final tragedy happening in the late 1600's

And while walking there I nearly stepped on this little guy:

As I headed home, there were preparations going on for the festival which starts in 3 days (The ON festival starts on the 6th, and the OFF festival starts on the 8th):

Back to my readings now.....