Arles

Some days I feel like I'm on the Amazing Race! Woke up early to try and catch the train early enough to Arles so we could return to Avingon this evening for our train to Paris. Ate breakfast fast, ran to the bus stop and saw our bus 11! Ran to catch it before it left, made it to the last stop to catch our bus to the TGV (one of the train stations), barely made that connection. Ran inside the train station only to figure out we were at the WRONG train station. The one we needed was back where bus 11 dropped us off first and we would have made the 9:50 train...only now we had to wait till 11:45! Walked through Avingon some more, seeing a church that was closed yesterday and found my pin for this city. Went to the correct train station this time, had to go to the bathroom. It cost €.50 so we handed the lady several 5 cent coins and one 20 cent. She flipped out on me in French! I have no idea what she was saying! Best I could figure is she wanted a 50 cent piece and not multiple coins! Even after she let me go she was still yelling at me or about me, who the heck knows, in French. Good news, my bladder was happy even if she wasn't.

Arles was not as exciting as Rick Steves made it sound. I guess maybe if you hadn't already been to Rome? There was a colosseum from the Romans in 90 AD, a small version of the huge one in Rome. They still have bullfights today but none until the 9th (today's the 6th). They also had a Roman Forum, small scale to Rome. We saw a cloister but the church was closed. Visited a theatre built in the 1st century BC and an art museum, weird! Hopped a train back to Avingon to grab our bags, head to the TGV station (we quadruple checked) for our train to Paris.

We traveled the length of Texas essentially in 3 hours by high speed train! It's raining and "cold" also it was like 9:30pm when we got here so...

Found our hotel, easiest and fastest thus far (minus the hotel in Santorini where they picked us up from the port). Our hotel somehow had it down as one person even though we selected two on the website. We took it anyway, bed is smaller than a double but bigger than a twin. He said "it's for people who are in love."

Starving we went walking and found SUBWAY!!! And they had CONDIMENTS!!!

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