An easy day in Avignon

After a very leisurely breakfast in the hotel, we wandered around. The main  tourist attraction in Avignon is the Palace of the Pope's. In the 14th century 6 successive Pope's lived in Avignon .  We will be going in as part of our river cruise so we just wandered past and went into the attached church for a look then up onto a hill behind with good views over Avignon and surrounding areas. We walked around some of the old walls and looked down onto the bridge of the songs fame. We stumbled upon a cafe in a secluded Place and had some salad sitting at a table under large trees. Delightful.

In the afternoon we wandered around lots of the narrow laneways with little shops and  cafes and some of the bigger Places with stately old buildings. We are staying on a little street just of Place d'Horloge, one of the biggest. Our hotel is in an old building with nice rooms but a bizarre arrangement of floor levels. We get out of the lift on the third floor, walk several metres, up to 2 steps, turn left, up another 10 steps, along a corridor, through a sitting area, around a bend and then another few steps before we get to our room, still apparently on the third floor. There are another 2 floors indicated in the lift.