Hello from Avignon in southern France. It seems our IT problem has resolved, the UK adapter we were using was faulty and since arriving in France and using the French adaptor the tablet is now charging.
To bring you up to date, we had a week in Kent where we caught up with more of my cousins which wss fantastic, other than that Kent was a disappointment for me. I went back expecting things to be the same, WRONG, the livery stables where we kept the horses now has houses on it, as does the woods we used to ride through. Much of Kent has gone from being country to being a suburb, think Frankston or Yarraville!!
Having said that we spent a great day in Canterbury, walked through the cathedral (although I object to paying £25 for the pleasure of walking through the high church of my religion) we took a boat trip through Canterbury on the river Stour, walked the old town and finally did the Canterbury Tales Experience (which was less than inspiring)
We also spent an afternoon at ightam moat, walking through the 13th century manor house.
On Sunday we headed to London and stayed at St Pancras for an early morning trip on Eurostar yo Marseilles. St Pancras is incredible, we spent a couple of hours shopping and people watching in the station.
Monday a 6 hour trip to Marseilles, when we arrived we found the car hire place and picked up our car a Fiat Panda!!!! The people at Europcar were singularly unhelpful, and in fact downright arrogant, but we picked up the rental car and with no sat nav and no phone coverage I attempted to drive us to Avignon!!!!! Bloody hell the traffic was atrocious, no one signals, they just use the horn, we had no idea where to go and ended up driving up and down these narrow streets in peak hour, with Warren yelling watch out!!! Eventually we found a sign that said Aix En Provence and knew we had to head in that direction, we just kept following the signs until we found more signs for Avignon. 2 hours later we pulled into a Maccas and with their wifi managed to get google maps to find our way to our villa.
When we arrived Laurant the villa owner met us and showed us as around the property, which is wonderful, he also drew us mud maps of where to find the supermarket and other places we might need. He also showed us the push bikes we could use instead of driving.
Tuesday I rode to the supermarket and bought grocerys a round trip of about 5km but we spent the day just mooching around the pool. Wednesday we rode around country lanes, managed to find a mobile phone store and purchase a sim card. You now need your passport to get a sim card in France!! We spent the aftrrnoon by the pool.
Today we rode into Avignon itself and checked out the Pont du Avignon and the rest of the town. Tomorrow we are doing a bus tour of some winerys and other Provence towns. We head to Paris on Saturday.
The weather is fantastic, mid 30's sunny and the mistral which was blowing hard on Monday has dropped to a gentle breeze.
We are both fine, but missing home.
Take care everyone.
To bring you up to date, we had a week in Kent where we caught up with more of my cousins which wss fantastic, other than that Kent was a disappointment for me. I went back expecting things to be the same, WRONG, the livery stables where we kept the horses now has houses on it, as does the woods we used to ride through. Much of Kent has gone from being country to being a suburb, think Frankston or Yarraville!!
Having said that we spent a great day in Canterbury, walked through the cathedral (although I object to paying £25 for the pleasure of walking through the high church of my religion) we took a boat trip through Canterbury on the river Stour, walked the old town and finally did the Canterbury Tales Experience (which was less than inspiring)
We also spent an afternoon at ightam moat, walking through the 13th century manor house.
On Sunday we headed to London and stayed at St Pancras for an early morning trip on Eurostar yo Marseilles. St Pancras is incredible, we spent a couple of hours shopping and people watching in the station.
Monday a 6 hour trip to Marseilles, when we arrived we found the car hire place and picked up our car a Fiat Panda!!!! The people at Europcar were singularly unhelpful, and in fact downright arrogant, but we picked up the rental car and with no sat nav and no phone coverage I attempted to drive us to Avignon!!!!! Bloody hell the traffic was atrocious, no one signals, they just use the horn, we had no idea where to go and ended up driving up and down these narrow streets in peak hour, with Warren yelling watch out!!! Eventually we found a sign that said Aix En Provence and knew we had to head in that direction, we just kept following the signs until we found more signs for Avignon. 2 hours later we pulled into a Maccas and with their wifi managed to get google maps to find our way to our villa.
When we arrived Laurant the villa owner met us and showed us as around the property, which is wonderful, he also drew us mud maps of where to find the supermarket and other places we might need. He also showed us the push bikes we could use instead of driving.
Tuesday I rode to the supermarket and bought grocerys a round trip of about 5km but we spent the day just mooching around the pool. Wednesday we rode around country lanes, managed to find a mobile phone store and purchase a sim card. You now need your passport to get a sim card in France!! We spent the aftrrnoon by the pool.
Today we rode into Avignon itself and checked out the Pont du Avignon and the rest of the town. Tomorrow we are doing a bus tour of some winerys and other Provence towns. We head to Paris on Saturday.
The weather is fantastic, mid 30's sunny and the mistral which was blowing hard on Monday has dropped to a gentle breeze.
We are both fine, but missing home.
Take care everyone.
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