Avignon

The Saturday after we got back from Spring Break, we took our final CEA excursion to Avignon. The main tourist attraction in Avignon is the Pope's Palace. There was time in Catholic Church back in the middle ages known as the Great Schism, when there were two popes, one living in Rome and one living in Avignon. It was a pretty cool old building, but not as cool as some of the other castles we've seen.

View of Avignon from the palace's tower. It was an absolutely gorgeous spring day!

After wandering around the castle for about an hour, we walked over to the Pont Avignon, a bridge famous for being the subject of a French folk song {and very being really old, of course}. There's a little chapel in the middle of the bridge!

View of the Rhone River from the Pont d'Avignon. After checking out the bridge, we bought delicious sandwiches and pastries from a boulangerie.

Our last outing was to Chateauneuf du Pape, the big wine region in Provence. We toured a vineyard, learned about how wine is made, and sampled a few different types. I'm still not a big fan of wine, or really any type of alcohol. I have a feeling that my twenty-first birthday is going to be pretty lame!

Drinking wine in the afternoon made everyone very sleepy, so we all took a nap on the bus back to Aix!