Day 2 – Friday 12 September 2025 - Avignon
Avignon City Wall, we entered Avignon here by a small door in the wall to right of photo.
There was a choice of Avignon excursions that morning, one included a visit to the Pope’s Palace, the other had instead a Petite Train tour. We opted for the latter while Dan and Krisie went to the Pope’s Palace.
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| Joan & Peter on Petite Train - photo by Kisie |
The Petite Train departed from in front of the Pope’s Palace. There was a line of people waiting to get on, but Riviera had booked the rear two carriages and we boarded straight away. The road train toured Avignon’s narrow streets, often delayed by unloading lorries. A recorded soundtrack could be heard by inserting the jack of Riviera’s listening device headphone and selecting the language.
Afterwards the guide led us to Pont de Avignon (above), the broken stone bridge that is the subject of a famous French song. There is a lift up to the bridge.
Then back for lunch. Nothing was organised for the afternoon. We went on a walk along the river bank and were rewarded with the aftermath of a shunt involving an articulated lorry and two cars that blocked both lanes of one carriageway. No-one was injured, and I couldn’t see any damage but there was a lot of waving of arms and angry hooting from cars trapped behind them.
Mooring location-Avignon: https://what3words.com/ranted.warrior.jeep
At 18:00 the ship sailed down river to Arles arriving there about 21:30
At 18:30 we were all gathered in the lounge for the ‘Mandatory Safety Briefing’. This amounted to showing the video that was available on the in-room TV. We were too far from the lounge TV screens to see or hear the video so it was bit of a waste of time.
Mooring location-Arles: https://what3words.com/bronze.plotting.dads
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