Tour map
16 maja 2019, Australia ⋅ ☀️ 15 °CHere's the map of the tour - we keep looking at it and try to imagine the places we'll visit. If you want to see more, here's the link to APT - Czytaj więcej
Here's the map of the tour - we keep looking at it and try to imagine the places we'll visit. If you want to see more, here's the link to APT - Czytaj więcej
Picture is Janette curled up 'in bed' with a good book.
We're still four or five hours from Barcelona. We've been on this leg for about eight and a half hours, leaving Singapore about midnight Czytaj więcej
Landed at dawn, went straight through customs, were met by Chris from APT and were at the El Palace Hotel before 9am. As our rooms wouldn't be ready till 2pm we needed to kill some time. As if we Czytaj więcej
Breakfast at 7 then assemble at 8 for our tour to finish at 2. It was a real architectural morning. First was access to an Antoni Gaudi creation before it opened to the general public. This is another Czytaj więcej
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I must admit that I was very sceptical about this 'church'. I'd heard so much about Czytaj więcej
Late start today - just as well as we slept till nearly seven. We had to meet at ten to catch our coach so we had a late, slow breakfast outside in a little courtyard next to the dining room. Czytaj więcej
Left Barcelona by coach at 8.30am. and headed East along the Mediterranean coast towards France. E T A at Arles is about 4pm. We had a comfort / coffee stop about 10 and reached Perpignan for lunch. Czytaj więcej
Visited the town of Salon and went to Marius Fabre, famous soap manufacturer still making soap the traditional way. They make 'pure' soap a la Sunlight and Velvet. They are famous for the purity of Czytaj więcej
We docked in Avignon at 8am and went on a guided tour at 9 for about 1.5 hours. What a lovely place! It is a walled city which had 4 gates and now there are 8. One of the extra 4 is near the area Czytaj więcej
Off again at 5pm for the Pont du Gard - a massive Roman aquaduct. This really needs to be 'googled' to get a good explanation of what the Romans achieved. From the right hand side of my photo, from a Czytaj więcej
Podróżnik Wow have a great time.