July 20-22 in Avignon, France! Recommendation please
 

Hi All,

I will stop by Avignon during Jul20-22, arrival at 2pm jul20 Saturday and head to Paris at 12:00 noonon Jul22(Monday)!

Main objective is to see the famous lavender field and sight seeing of the historical development (building)!

Any recommendation? I will rent a car for 2 days!

And when I booked the hotel a week ago, all city hotel are fully booked and I have to stay at a hotel near Avignon TGV station! And I know there will be Art festival during my visit, any show I can't missed? And will Avignon city be v crowd that I should visit the outskirt tourist spots?

Looking forward to your excellent ideas!

We were there last year and used Avignon as a train / bus base. It was a great location.

I found that Avignon itself had very few actual tourist sights. It's not Florence, etc

For us it served its purpose.

Florence is my favorite, too! Thx.

>>>very few actual tourist sights<<<

hat about this one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_des_Papes

This is a must go! Thx.

Myer, was that the Avignon in France of which you write "I found that Avignon itself had very few actual tourist sights?"

Funny, the Avignon I visited had two full days of things to see without working very hard to find them."