Weekend in Avignon

This weekend I went to Avignon with my parents. We stayed in a hotel inside the Castle walls of Avignon. It was really nice in our suite, I even had my own room. There was a lovely breakfast every morning we were there. Yum yum yummy yum Scrumptious!

The bridge looks like it hasn’t been finished, but nearly a thousand years ago in the 11th Century it was built from one side of the river to the other, and it WAS finished. But the last royal person to cross the bridge was Louis XIII and when it half collapsed in the 17th Century the king didn’t want it to be repaired. The bridge was a very important route between Italy and Spain used by pilgrims.

The first night we walked to the Chinese restaurant, it was very rainy. The next day, after the scrumptious breakfast, we went out to the Zoo of the Chateau de la Barben. We saw elephants, giraffes, lions, hippopotomouses and even tapirs. Halfway through it started to rain and rain and rain.


The hippos seemed to like it and do you know what the Grandad Hippo had? Teeth that curled round the sides, you couldn’t miss them. He opened his great big mouth about three times! The hippos went for a dip in their water, they went right under, they can stay underwater for about six minutes.

And do you know what the elephant did? He was batting his string sack of hay, it was so funny. He had a big pile of sand and he was rolling and tossing himself in it having a great play. He was a noisy elephant. Daddy was talking to all the animals like he knew them, some of them came when Daddy spoke, I think he is Dr Doolittle.

On the way back we had some Macdonalds.

When we got back to Avignon, we went to the Christmas market, bought some chocolate and I went on the merry go round. That evening my Mum and I dressed up nice and Daddy took us to Café Crillon to eat tapas. I liked the croquette emmenthal.

And today, we dropped Daddy to the airport, because he is working in Amsterdam, and then we drove home.