Saturday 19th September - Van Gogh Museum We went for a bit of a walk down these narrow lanes to the Van Gogh Museum. This is a very new building having been inaugurated in 2014. Two other artists also had an exhibition on but we were not keen on what they had to offer so proceeded to the Van Gogh Influences and Innovations. Van Gogh moved to Arles in 1888 and he expressed himself with a huge number of drawings that he did with reeds that he cut and shape...

Saturday 19th September - Lunch We finally found a place to have lunch at a table where the people at the next table were not smoking. The number of women that smoke is appalling. We had a long baggette with ham and a Croque Madame and frittes and deux beers. We had an animated conversation with the couple at the next door table who came to Arles for the day from Avignon. They couldn't speak much English and we couldn't speak much French - it was great an...

Saturday 19th September - Amphitheatre We headed away from the market and ok a couple of side streets and around the corner was the Amphitheatre. This was built by the Romans in the first century AD and was bases on the Coliseum except that it was not round but oval shaped. The facade is 21 metres high and has two rows of sixty arcades with round arches. The Ampitheatre had a capacity of 21,000. There are 4 towers and the entrance today is at the norther...

Saturday 19th September - Market Day We had a lovely breakfast in the main room of Marie & Jean and soon ventured out into the streets to view the market that takes place and the reason not to park your rental car is this space! There was a cool breeze and we had a wee walk to get to the place where the market starts. A long road that goes around the outskirts of the Old Town has market stalls down both sides of the roadway with the stall owners cars and...

Friday 18th September - Arles We went for a walk to find a place where we could get some lunch and ended up on the corner of a Place at a little cafe. Originally we sat outside but it was too hot and we moved inside to have our baguette and croque monsier and two beers. Afterwards we wandered along the main street and looked in the shops and came to a ladieswear shop and Jannie tried on lots of dresses for Kathryn's Wedding. She liked one and I liked the ...