Day 2 – Paris – Avignon
Avignon is one of the major cities in Provence, Southern France. It famous as it is the city to which the Popes fled when leaving the corruption of Rome in 14th century. We are heading to this city by TGV train. It takes about 3.5 hours from Paris , Gare-de-Lyon to Avignon. We bought the TGV ticket online few months before we depart but unfortunately, we lost in during the train interchange and we are 5 minutes late to Gare-de-Lyon. And this is the biggest lost as we have to re-purchase the ticket. Though it has few schedules but each is with different fare. Finally, we bought 3 hours later train with 80€.
Now, we have 3 hours time wandering at Gare-de-Lyon. As usual, café is our first choice.
Afternoon, we step on our foot at Avignon. There are a lot of apartments near to TGV station. Unfortunately, ours is quite far. Ours apartment is cottage type. In front there is grapes plantation and roses as well. Very fresh and relaxing atmosphere which we can sit at the lawn chair outside the cottage and have some chips and beer.
After some rest, we walk to the bus station and proceed to Avignon town. Bus fare is 1.70€. You find police patrol by bicycle. You see bicycle rental everywhere. Beautiful scene, beautiful people surrounding you.
This is the restaurant we stop for coffee. And here we met a handsome and funny waiter. He can speak fluent English, Spanish, French and Italy. One of the phases I remembered is “If I’m a bird, I direct go that way. But I’m just a human. So, I need to walk, turn left and walk, turn right and there it is.” when we asking for the direction.
Way back to our apartment, we go Carrefour to buy some vegetables, sausages, pizza and bread for our dinner and tomorrow breakfast.
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