Arles: July 16-18th

It was another long travel day for us. One of our trains was delayed by about a couple of hours because of an accident on the tracks but we made it into Arles just in time for dinner. We went to La Cuisine de Comptoir. They served these delicious "tartine sandwiches". As far as I could tell, 'tartine' was some sort of special bread to the region. More or less it was a cross between an open faced sandwich and a pizza, depending on the kind of sandwhich you got. The food was so good we went back the next night.

After dinner, we tried to do the Van Gogh walk but it got too dark and the mosquitoes were out in full force so we called it a night and headed back to the hotel.

Once again, we were lucky with the markets. Arles has a market day on Sundays and Wednesdays so Wednesday morning we got up to find the market. It ended up being right around the corner from our hotel.

After wandering around in the market we finished the Van Gogh walk. Later that day we went to see the arena and the theater. We also visited the cryptoporticos. You get to go under ground and see the old street level. We went in the heat of the day on purpose so that we would get some relief from it! It was so nice and cool underground. Next we went to St. Trophime church.

After the church we headed to the grocery store to get some food for breakfast because we had to catch a 7am train to Toulouse.