The plan was to visit Pont du Gard and Avignon. Pont du Gard was about a 1.5 hour away from home and you drive through Avignon so that was going to be done on the way home. We set off earlyish and arrived in good time, however whilst I was parking and making a routine parking manoeuvre (definitely not Neil's word for it) I popped a tyre on the car. There was a little bit of #*@+ and a lot of silence. Neil managed to find everything that Peugeot had hidden away in the car to change a tyre and did so while the tourists were pouring through the car park gates. With tyre changed, and Neil now filthy from the gravel car park, we went and viewed the bridge.
Pont du Gard is a bridge built by the Romans to transport water to Nimes and is quite beautiful. It was not quite the day we expected and no one was interested in seeing the bridge except for me, especially after the car park incident. We viewed the bridge from every angle then left the masses to their picnics and the midday heat. We cancelled Avignon and drove on to Apt (close to our holiday home) to get a new tyre fitted. Thankfully the Peugeot dealer was extremely efficient and everything could be done straight away while we waited and had our picnic lunch in their car park under a tree. Not quite Avignon but that's life. Tomorrow it is off to photograph our town in the morning light, then with the car fully functioning, a short drive to visit the nearby village of Fountaine-de-Vaucluse .
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