A short walk to the station and our single diesel carriage train arrived for the pretty trip through forests interspersed with agricultural strips and stopping at eight towns on the way to Agen on the main route from Bordeaux to the Mediterranean Sea. We found a window seat each so we both had unrestricted views. I can't help myself, lovely scallops for lunch in the buffet de gare with a glass of Bergerac red, what a life! Then a big train to Narbonne through Toulouse and Carcassonne. On this leg of our journey we had our first and only sight of the snowy Pyrenees.
Once again we were unimpressed by the steps required to negotiate the platforms at French stations, ramps are rare and lifts or escalators pretty well unheard of!
The train to Avignon was a smart new machine with 9 stops before the terminus
and we again were able to choose window seats opposite each other - the very best way to travel through new country, rubbernecking out of each other's window as well as our own!
We pulled our cases through the walled city of Avignon to our hotel right in the middle of the outdoor restaurant area, fantastic. I had selected it for its central position and because it was in sight (standing on tiptoe at our window) of the Palace des Papes, a beautiful ancient palace used when the Popes moved out of Rome for a century or two.
Once again we were unimpressed by the steps required to negotiate the platforms at French stations, ramps are rare and lifts or escalators pretty well unheard of!
The train to Avignon was a smart new machine with 9 stops before the terminus
and we again were able to choose window seats opposite each other - the very best way to travel through new country, rubbernecking out of each other's window as well as our own!We pulled our cases through the walled city of Avignon to our hotel right in the middle of the outdoor restaurant area, fantastic. I had selected it for its central position and because it was in sight (standing on tiptoe at our window) of the Palace des Papes, a beautiful ancient palace used when the Popes moved out of Rome for a century or two.
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