Today was spent in the town of Avignon. Quite the place. During the 14th century it was the home of one of the popes. Apparently there was a great schism in the church. Different kings supported different popes likely to get support for things they wanted to get done. The pope in Rome eventually won but the dual papacy lasted for over a century if I recall correctly. I wonder how a dual papacy would go over now?
The town is enclosed by a wall and aside from the castle where the pope resided the town is filled with shops and cafés. These cafés seem to be set up just as a venue for people watching. There is no such thing as a bad seat as all the chairs are oriented to allow for viewing of the people passing by. 
No more pretense - we are just here to watch. At some point there will be cafés facing each other having people from one side of the street watching people seated at the cafe on the other side of the street.
We saw the old statue trick being done - paint yourself in silver and don't move. Not bad. Mommy and I got a picture taken with the statue. I wanted to be in the middle but mommy wouldn't let me. 
We also saw some guy playing some classical guitar in front of the palais de papes. Pretty good. He held the guitar in an almost standing bass formation. He had super long nails on one hand and short nails on the other. Without guitar in hand must be kind of weird to explain the asymmetry.
Public washrooms have come in two different varieties: ones with a separate hot and a cold faucet or ones with a basin so small you can only fit one hand at a time. Are they against hand washing after using the washroom or is it more a conservation of water?
I'm not sure how many espresso cups you could fit in the basin. Three or four at most! (Also the no toilet paper in the toilet is weird - what are you supposed to call toilet paper that doesn't go in the toilet anyways? I can understand no diapers...)
Anyways. A bit of a ramble. Tomorrow is our last day before we head off to Barcelona. Switching from French to Spanish... Curious to see if it's only the language that changes.
More later!
- Lucas Perez
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