Provence (part 2)
[Music] [Music] Hello and welcome back to Andy on tour. In September 2024, we have spent two weeks on holiday in Province, France. We have chosen Avenueong as a starting point for our excursions into the surrounding area. In addition to Avenue, we decided to visit the following places. Nim, Ponduga, Valance, Colorado Proal, Ros Gord, Liil, Turorg, and Leage Dei. On our way back home, we stopped off at the famous wine region of Armitage and used Turo as a base for our next excursions. Today in part two of my promo series I keep the focus on two locations Ponduga and Neim. Both have Roman roots. Ponduga was built in mid of 1st century and was part of a 50 kilometer long water supply pipeline from the mountains down to Neim. The highlight of Neim is definitely the Roman amphitheater which was also built at the end of the first century. An interesting audio guide is telling you all about the life of a gladiator. So, let’s get the show started. Have fun. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat up here. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat [Music] up here. Heat up [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat up here. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] deal. [Music] [Music]
In September 2024 we’ve spent 2 weeks in the Provence in south of France. We used Avignon as our hub as we had found accommodation there. From there we made excursions on a daily base.
Avignon has got two landmarks : the Pope’s palace and Pont Bénezet which most of the people in the world knows from children’s song “Sur le pont d’Avignon”.
Close to Avignon is Villeneuve-les-Avignon with its nice medieval fort and abbey of St.André.
Further excursions took us westerly to world famous roman aqueduct “Pont du Gard” and the city of Nimes with its famous roman arena.
East of Avignon we’ve found interesting places too : in the Colorado Provencale you can find ground in different shades of ocre (from yelloish to reddish). A pictoresc town with buildings coloured in ocre shades can be found on top of a hill : Roussillon – really worth to be visited !
Another beautiful village sitting on top of a hill is “Gordes”.
And just around the corner you find an abbey (“Notre dame de Sénanque”) which can be found on thousands of post cards – always surrounded by blooming lavender.
L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue is a small town known for their channels and water wheels which once provided power for the craftsmen in town. Because of the many channels it was called “Venice of Comtat”.
Finally “Le Village des Bories” consist of a certain number of buildings from 17th and 18th century. They were made by farmers and were build only by using flat stones. No cement , no mortar has been used (reminds me of Trullis in Italy).
On our way back home we made a stopover in the famous wine region “Hermitage” in the Rhone Valley. Tournon-sur-Rhone , Tain l’Hermitage and Valence have been visited. A further must-do is a train ride with the “Train de l’Ardeche” along the river of Ardeche and beautiful landscape.
This video (part 2 of our journey) is focussing on Pont du Gard and Nimes only. Part 1 (focussing on Avignon and Villeneuve-les-Avignon) has already been issued. The other spots will follow soon….