Any Place Similar To Avignon,france?

lynbrown | 22:59 Sun 29th Dec 2013 | Travel

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We had a lovely holiday earlier this year in Avignon. It was on a river, had an historic 'old' quarter from 12th century and lots of winding streets to explore. Is there any where else like this in France?

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jno

ah yes, the old town of Viagra, but you don't get the winding streets, just the one motorway straight through.

Mosaic

Just a little to add to others' advice.
Carcassonne is unbelievably crowded in August - literally queues of pedestrians waiting to walk into the old town. Outside of August it is lovely, and the hotel 'les trois couronnes' lies just over the bridge in the modern town, has all the amenities of a modern hotel, but is in easy walking distance of the old town.

From Carcassonne station you can easily get trains to Toulouse, Montpellier, etc - anywhere in fact

St Malo also gets quite manically busy in August, but not to the extent experienced by Carcassonne as there are more ways in and out. Because St Malo got bombarded in WW2 there is relatively little of the intact old town.

Coming back to the Nimes area: Nimes itself is fascinating historically with huge Roman remains and within train-travelling distance are Uzes (historic town and Haribo factory) and Arles (Van Gogh and Camargue horses). The Roman aqueduct at Pont du Gard is served by touristand local buses.

France is full of wonderful interesting towns and if without a car I suggest you simply travel by train on the excellent local and inter-city services.

craft1948

I used to go to France every year but never in August...........all the nice places are full of the French then.

jeffa

France totally relies on its rail network. It's not for nothing that they say SNCF stands for "sans nous c'est foutu" :-)

Mosaic

language, Jeffa.

jeffa

French, in fact.

Mosaic

'foutu'
usual translation would be - well, rhymes with 'chucked'

jeffa

Not really. It's pretty mild, like most French swearing. The phrase "petit con", for example, is nowhere near as serious as it's literal English translation.

Mosaic

Yep, I've always held that they cuss a bleu streak.