This morning, we left Avignon. I took my postcards to the post office, where this nice lady helped me use the automated machine and buy postage (she went above and beyond what I expected), and then we took the train to Nimes. Nimes was pretty important in Roman times and has the best-preserved Roman amphitheater in all of the world, plus other ruins. It’s not that touristy of a town, so it feels more like a regular city. We talked about coming here as a day trip, but then we figured out that we could take a 10am train from here to Barcelona but a 6am train from Avignon to Barcelona. Unfortunately, the hotel reception didn’t open until 2:30pm, so we had to carry the luggage with us for 3+ hours. We saw several examples of Roman ruins, a Versailles-inspired city park, and a really cheesy movie about Nimes’ history. We also read in our guidebook that denim is “de Nimes” and had existed here long before Levi Strauss popularized it.
P.S. There's no Wi-Fi at this hotel, but somebody in the area left their network open ... good for me, bad for them. ;-)
