Gordes

On our last day in Avignon, we knew we needed to fill the car up with gas (well, with Diesel, actually) before we could turn it in the following morning at the TVG station. So we drove over to a previously identified Shell station, filled up, and I was ready to head back into the city and spend a nice day relaxing around Avignon.

Doreen, though, thought it would be nice to drive to Gordes, a mountain village east of Avignon. Needless to say, we didn't have a great map, but we soldiered on.

This is our first view of Gordes:


It was a real medieval village, a walled town, that had given itself over to the tourist trade. The drive was sort of harrowing, and the road was very narrow. You don't get a good feel for how steep it was from this photo:


But it did feel like you were on top of the world.


There was an old castle in town:

that had been turned into the Hotel de Ville (city hall)


On the way out, we saw more grapevines, as above.