This Saturday the CSU program took us on yet another group trip to Avignon. Avignon is unlike an other city I've seen in France so far surrounding the city is a wall which seems to turn the whole city into a fort. The city is probably best known for its Palais des Papes(Palace of the Popes), where the Popes lived for much of the 14th century and the reason the city placed a wall around all sides. Some of us decided to take a tour of the Palais where we took a audio guided tour of the entire palace. It was enormous it took us a couple hours just to go through the whole building, some of the rooms were amazing and bigger than i can even begin to describe. After the Palais we walked around town for a bit ate some lunch and then was off to our next stop, Pont du Gard.
The Pont du Gard is and aqueduct in the south of France constructed by the Roman Em
pire. From the Middle Ages to the 18th century, the aqueduct was used as a conventional bridge to facilitate foot traffic across the river. The Pont du Gard is today one of France's top five tourist attractions. It was so neat to see something that old still look so intact even though it had been through plenty of redevelopment. While we were there me and a couple others actually decided to kinnda break the rules, visitors used to be able to walk across the very top but now they have a gate blocking it off because of the wind. Well we kinnda decided to break those rules and we made it around the gate and crossed to the other side...i know i know we shouldn't have but it was well worth it the view was amazing!
It was good to get out of Aix and get our little history fix for the day and take a break from classes that i now have for 22 hours a week (i added another class). Even though it was absolutely freezing it was good to just let lose goof of and enjoy France.
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