Chateaunerf de Pape - Avignon

Wednesday 3 August 05

We got up and packup up camp. We were heading to Avignon. The wind still had not settled but we were hopeful that we may get a tail wind.

The first 6km through town were really tough. I was in front trying to break as much wind as possible for Cam - however, this didn't really help as the wind was coming more from an angle. After 6kms we turned left and voila...... a strong tail wind. The tail wind tool us all the way into Avignon. After choosing a campground from the many available we set up camp. The campsite was huge - each tent site was loaded with 2 sometimes 3 tents. There were people everywhere. Unfortunately the wind was still blowing strongly and causing dust to blow everywhere.

We unpacked our stuff and got changed before heading into town to have a look. The campground was ont he Ile de la Barthelasse, an island that sits right in the middle of the Rhone River. We walked across the bridge and then along the side of the original rampart of the Old city. We wondered through the city admiring the Papal Palace and other sites. We went to the train station to get information on travelling back to Paris from Nimes.

We headed back to the campsite and into our tent to try and get away from the wind which was starting to really get to us.

We decided that if it was still windy like this tomorrow that we were going to pull up stumps and head back to Paris.

We went to the campground supermarket and bough some cheese and wine - which turned our to be our dinner. Well, part of it anyway - after finishing our 2 bottles of wine and a wheel of cambert we raced back to the markets and bought another bottle of wine and 2 wheels of cheese. We closed ourselved back in the tent and chilled out.

We woke up sometime around 2 am tothe sounds of a women enjoying her sex. Not particulary a great sound in the quiet of night. This went on for nearly an hour before finally stopping.