Quieter-than-usual spring season in Avignon : the no-fly zone extended over Europe, and more importantly, the long
TGV (superfast trains linking the city to Paris and beyond London and Amsterdam) strike, all but isolated Avignon last week.
I could not resist publising this 1947 Times article, from the 1947 April 14 issue, Atlantic Oversea edition, page 24, found in an old copy sold for 20 centimes at a
" Brocante" ( second-hand goods market) today, in Bonpas, near Avignon. Isn't it beautiful in its sobriety and precision? Seems that nowadays the main danger from eruptions is the information flood...
Not all airports where closed, and I fetched my wife last week from Lyons' St Exupery airport, very convenient. Makes sense to rent a car there and watch the vegetation go greener the more you travel south down the Rhone Valley - if you have a flight from this small but cosy airline hub. Two hours by expressway, or you could stop en route in places like Pont St Esprit ( for the ancient bridge), or Grignan (for the castle)...
