- Breakfast at home, then off to Palais des Papes (papal palace), the Catholic papal center in the 1500s when politics caused the pope to leave Rome. The specific politics were explained a couple of times along the way, never did quite get it. The rooms were massive, some with old painting (no pictures allowed in those). Up from the Palais to gardens behind it (great views of Rhone river and Villeneuve des Avignon, a sister city). From there, down to the Rhone and the "Point d'Avignon", a sort of "bridge to nowhere" that is the remnants of a long bridge that connected Avignon and Villeneuve long ago. Took the long way back to the apt. via the tourist office and saw some old water wheels that were used to power cloth factories back in the day. Vuelta de Espana stage on TV!
- Took a run around the Avignon wall, about 5K total, 30:00. Felt good, no rain but lots of puddles. Did some forearm work and jackknife pulls in apt.
- Dinner - wow! Le Tout Petit, 2 blocks from the apt. Fixed price meal with mushroom soup, duck, chocolate dessert. Top 20 lifetime meals.
- Overnight - more hard rain/lightning, and more water in the apt., cascades down the wall from the skylights. Lots of active mopping, got it mostly cleaned up by 1 a.m.
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