We had a time set for the vineyard Chateau Pape Clement. Instead of taking a wine tour (which was full anyways and expensive) we booked our own and figured out our own transportation. This included a lot of walking, a metro and then a lot of walking. It was worth it to get a good view of the neighborhoods.

The vineyard was sweet and we were the only ones on the tour that didn’t speak French, good thing out tour guide translated everything into English for us.

Highlights about this vineyard were, the first pope from France, Pope Clement V, (and the first Pope of Avingon) owned this vineyard in the beginning (hence the name). He loved vino. Now some rich dude owns it and 35 other vineyards.
It was interesting to see things left over from when the Pope owned it (when we died he gave the vineyard to the church and then in (some date I can’t remember) it was sold to other owners). There was a chapel, leftover medieval art, a fake tomb of Pope Clement and a few other creepy things.

We had a few tastings after the tour, we didn’t buy any bottles since we bought two the day before and we really have no good way to carry things other than our back packs.

We headed back to the city to figure out what to do since we are stuck here.
Museums are always a good option in my book
First we hit the art museum and since it was so late in the day (at least I think that’s why) it was free….score. It housed the typical paintings, but I did get to see a Caravaggio painting I had never seen before. Also, there were some interesting French painters I had never heard of.

The next stop was the archeological museum and it was free too…woo hoo. It must be a special museum day. This was interesting to look at but it was all in French, so I’m sure it would have been better if we could read everything. We could only guess.

We also stopped into a gothic cathedral…quite impressive. (put the name here).
On the way back to the hotel we heard a band down an alley and decided to investigate. Some band was putting on a concert on the street corner…they were good, but I couldn’t understand anything they sang about. They sounded a little like the Beatles. Sweet! And again it was free. Two dudes had a dance off. One danced crazy like he had roaches in his pants, the other looked like he combined tango with salsa…it was interesting and they were completely smashed. The cops soon showed up and the party was over. We got to hear about 6 or 7 songs before the cops showed.

Since we have to get up at the butt crack of dawn for our train we decided to get groceries and eat in. We’ve eaten out every night on our trip, we’re ready to make our own food (never thought I would say that). Plus, we have two bottles of vino…heheeehe.

Tomorrow will be a full day of trains and then we stop in Nice, France only to sleep and then in the morning we head to Genoa and the Cinque Terra in Italy.

I’m sure I’ll start combining the little French I know with Italian….I mixed Spanish and French together in France….hahhah….Just when you get the hang of it, you have to change….hahah sounds like life.