We have arrived in beautiful Nimes for the first six months of our 12 month stay in France. It is a beautiful place and we look forward to using it as our base. We decided ( read I decided) on Nimes and after basic research thought it would meet all of our requirements. Not knowing much about the city it has been a lovely surprise. So many well maintained parks any help greener than I expected.

The accommodation while not modern is better than the photos, and much more room than I expected. We are in a quiet residential area, and had the pleasure of meeting a neighbor today. My husband didn’t introduce himself to a different neighbor who was putting out the garbage in his underwear 😁. Importantly the Boulangerie opens at 6.00am. Helpful knowing this when you wake up at 3.00am after the long flight from Australia.

The food markets are fabulous especially for someone like me who isn’t a great cook. We have found people to be very patient with our very limited French. We have used the first few days to walk around the town (averaging 15ks a day) and working out where things are and generally recovering from jet lag.

We will start the many day trips we have on the list this week, and will provide brief updates. Have a good day all.

Hope your stay is all you expect and more, do post regular updates of all you see and do, bonne chance et bon séjour à Nimes...😊

Nice! Glad to hear you are enjoupying it! Looking forward to more. I liked Nimes very much.

Haven’t been to Nimes so I will read with much interest.

Thanks. We arrived last Wednesday so have spent the time since then walking the streets of Nimes. I agree with you about the
beautiful tree lined streets, and so many of them.

We will be heading to the Loire Valley for 10 days after Nimes, then up to Dinan for a month. That should take us to about May
and then we will head to Strasbourg for three months. Not sure after that. We are going to Avignon tomorrow for the day and
I am really excited about visiting a place I have wanted to see for some time.

Don’t miss an evening with dinner in St Louis Square in Aigues Mortes.

rhon thanks for the good wishes. The visa application was a bit stressful, but moving out of our house for a year was way
more stressful and exhausting . I will post in a few days about the whole visa process for Aussies for future reference.

Our first day trip was to Avignon today.
Left home at 7.45 to catch the 8.51 train. It’s is a five k walk to the train station and that gave us 10 mins to spare. It is a quick trip of 30 minutes
We walked from the station to the centre and it is 1 k of easy walking. After a good coffee we headed into the Palais de Papes. We had booked tickets on line, however there wasn’t a need to do this as there were no queues. We were given an IPad on arrival and it is great technology, as when you hold the iPad over the time capsule you can see how the room would have been. It was a fabulous place to visit. The architecture was amazing, and we really enjoyed the We spent two hours walking around.

The next stop was the Pont Saint Benezet. Not sure that I would recommend this. It’s ok, however if you were short of time you could give it a miss.

A mediocre lunch and we only had ourselves to blame by going to the Place d’ Aulage. After lunch we walked around the old town we found some beautiful looking restaurants that we have marked
for next time. As we have planned further visits to the town, we didn’t rush around and see everything.

It was a lovely day even and look forward to going back for lunch in the near future. A total of 17ks walked today. Now sitting with my feet up ��

Thank you so much for taking time to post and let us share your adventure.

Good reading! I’ll be following your adventures.

We made a day trip to Nîmes from Bedoin a few years ago, specifically to see the arena. What we saw of the town was lovely. We had a very nice lunch there, too.

Following along on your adventures.

Only a quarter of the arena in scaffolding at the moment. Come again soon lol