Because nobody was around we had a quiet nice sleep. The showers were like going back in time for some decades and were looking as we washed ourselves in an old concentration camp. We had breakfast and continued towards the Provence. After about 100 km. we drove by the city of Carcassone. We parked the car somewhere on the outskirts of town and got the pushbikes to go into town. I had never heard about the place, but ‘la cite’ or the old town was packed with maaany tourists. It was a nice old walled town indeed. We let us thrive with the people. It was not a big place so after an hour or so we had seen the place and left for the car to have lunch and drove further to the village Remoulins to catch up with Pont du Gard. A roman aqueduct over the river Gard which was later transferred into a bridge as well. From Pont du Gard it was just a short trip to Avignon where we found a busy camping on an island in the river Rhone and stayed the night.

In Avignon there is another famous bridge…Pont Saint Benezet or nicknamed Pont d’Avignon. It are actually only the remains of a bridge over river Rhone, but became famous after a French children song ‘sur le Pont d’Avignon’. By bike we quickly visited the ‘la cite’ from Avignon and had a look at Palais de Papes and walked up park Rocher des Domes for having a great view over the city and the region with Mont Ventoux in the distance. On the way further we passed the village of Les Bories. This historic monument shows the way how the Borie people constructed buildings without the use of cement by just layering stones in a particular way. We enjoyed the weather pretty much because finally it was not raining at all and with a 30 degrees, the aircon in the car was working extra hours. From the Bories it was a short nice drive through lavender fields to Abbey de Sénanque.