Vive le France! 🇫🇷

A long sleep and soothing dreams improved my condition significantly overnight, and the drive from Nice to Carcassonne was much more pleasant than yesterday's.  We made a long stop in Avignon, a walled medieval city where the pope once resided for a time.  The papal palace made for a couple of lovely photos, and I found a few amusing curiosities around the city here and there.  Nothing pleased me more, however, than finally encountering a normal drug store, where I could browse the shelves and select my own items.   They even had diphenhydramine in stock.  Vive le France!

Carcassonne also looks to be a win so far.  We're going out to the old citadel tonight, which I'm expecting to be one of the highlights of the journey(at least for me).  My hotel room has a balcony with a view of it, and also has a bathtub and an apparently functional air conditioner (fingers crossed).  Aside from the odd placement of the toilet, which had me concerned, initially, that I'd been given the Brady Bunch's key by mistake, everything is lovely.  Can it last?  Stay tuned...