Hi! Arles and Avignon!

The motivation to go to Avignon was for visiting a friend. Honestly, I didn't care what I can see in Avignon. When I walked out the train station and saw the wall around Avignon, the first thought coming out my mind is that Avignon is yellow, Clermont-fd is black if every city has a symbolic color. The wall around Avignon is yellow. The old buildings such as cathedral in Clermont-fd are black.

Walked on the road in front of train station and  found the Palais de Pape. The building is really gorgeous. But I didn't see many stuffs.Nothing showed in the treasure room but big space. It was cold inside the house.  Nevertheless, the instrument for the popes is quite in detail. The reduced ticket price is  9 euros. Full price is about 11 euros.

Then I went to the Pont d'Avignon. It was raining when I came there. Anyway, seeing a group of students dancing on bridge was good, too. Their happiness made me feel the rain was nothing for trip. The bridge is simple. But the story for the bridge is good. The bridge is built by Saint Bénezet for helping the residents.

Seeing old friends in Avignon. Sharing life in France with her. Knowing new friends. Breaking the Taiwanese stereotype again. I've met some people thinking I'm like an European,  people from USA etc. Well... I've about 23 years experience to be a Taiwanese. I don't need people to tell me what is a Taiwanese truly and I don't have strength to force myself to fit the stereotype. I once met a boy who has a thought that Taiwanese girls are easy. Well... easy people finds each other easily. They take advantage of each other. Why only women get the negative feedback?

Arles, another comfortable village in France. There are roman heritages such as arena. I've seen Arena in Nimes. Therefore, I only went to thermal, found each room has different temperature and the way of heating the room is out of my imagination, using the think wall and air to heat the water. It's interesting! In Arles, there is a kind of kid dress. I almost bought this dress for my future niece when seeing it! It was so cute!  I'm pretty sure that I would spend much money if I've niece. Luckily, in 3 years, I won't have any niece. right? my sister haha

I went to the market, saw something to eat, something to wear. In Taiwan, there is night market. I felt the market between in Taiwan and in France is similar. The most difference is the time. One is in day time. The other is at night. Of cause, the content would be different. Generally, it'a always about something to eat, something to wear, something for life. I saw someone selling snake wine. It was claimed good for diabetics. well... I've seen this kind of things once in Taiwan when I was little. Now, I grew up. Still feel it weird.

There, I met a retired nurse from Marseille, living in retired house. We talked about life, her sons, etc. Out of curiosity, I asked her using soap of Marseille or not. And she said the soap of Marseille is for tourists. Those soaps even produce in other place. We share a sweet bread together. This type of bread is commoner in Taiwan. Bread is not staple food in Taiwan. So, the most bread in Taiwan is more like a desert, not like baguette this type of bread. And cheese is not so important in Taiwan like in France. But there are a lot of carrefour, amart, 24hrs convenient stores in Taiwan. It's easy to buy cheese. As for quality, I don't know. I'm not professional about cheese. But carrefour is french company. So, I've seen some french brand there.

Nice to meet you my future friends!

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