Can anyone help me in planning 2 days in Avignon (sights, museums, hotels -2 star, restaurants). I am just staying over in Avignon on the way from Florence to Barcelona. Many thanks.

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You can spend most of a day doing the historic sites-- the self-guided audio tour of the Pont d'Avignon takes about 1 1/2 hours, and the tour of the papal palace takes two hours or so (I can't quite remember if this one is also self-guided). Then a walk along the ramparts. Add in lunch, and that is a full and interesting day.<BR><BR>A second day could be spent wandering the town and shopping. There are also interesting day trips outside of the town that you could take, but I get the impression you want to stay in town.<BR><BR>We like Hotel d'Europe very much, and ate in their restaurant, whose name escapes me.

Depends on when you go, as well. When I was there, there was a big medieval festival so part of our touring the town also involved the festival activities. One day we took the bus to a nearby mall--they have this huge store called Geant that is like a French Costco. My absolute favorite restaurant, which is kind of casual, is L'Epicierie, near the Papal Palace.

Hi Melissa! Would you tell us more about l'Epicerie? I am wondering if it would be a good lunch place on the day that we go to Avignon. Thank you.

Rats--I'm at the office right now and I left my notes at home but I'm afraid I'll forget to post when I get home! I don't know if it's open for lunch, but it was open early for dinner....and you SHOULD go early if you have no reservations because it gets PACKED. It's casual and mostly open-air and they serve fresh produce from the area. I found it after my tour of the Papal Palace.....I believe we walked out the back way and made our way down the street to go back toward the town and kind of stumbled on it. It's not isolated, so if you get directions from your hotel it will be easy to find. If I remember to look for this post again I'll post the address, OK?

L'epicerie is located at 10, Place St. Pierre. They serve a variety of dishes featuring local products, but I thought it was nice that they had a vegetarian dish (and I'm not a vegetarian). It is one of their more popular items, only $12. It's a sample platter including a tapenade, hummus, polenta w/sun dried tomato, eggplant w/goat cheese, 2 thin sausage slices, and a wedge of Cavallion melon, all on a bed of lettuce and other veggies. VERY filling but not to the point where you feel sick!<BR><BR>Another nice restaurant was Le Saboly, which is nearby at Place Nicholas Saboly. Not much English is spoken there at ALL! It was a little more expensive than L'Epicerie, but nice. (My fave is L'Epicerie, though!)

Thanks, Melissa. We like a light lunch...salad, sandwich, but good quality and tasty. L'epicerie sounds good. Do they take credit cards?