Arezzo to Avignon

A day of travel. Train to Florence, bus to airport, plane to Lyon airport, train to Lyon Part Dieu the main train station in Lyon. On this train  I talked  to a French lady sitting next to me.  She was travelling onwards and was going to the ticket office so we went with her.  This helped us. The station was packed , it was 3.45 ish on a Friday and what we didnot know was that Monday is a public holiday. No wonder it was packed. I saw several bunches of soldiers wandering around with big guns. They all looked very young. The train to Avignon was over crowded , but we got a seat after the first couple of stops and the rest of the trip was uneventful and quite pleasant.  We walked the 900m to our hotel. Dinner was very good.