When we reached here yesterday afternoon the temperature had got up to the mid thirties and was likely to stay at this temperature in the foreseeable future.  We had a nice salad in the square but even that seemed a bit much in the heat.

In the night Ken got terrible throbbing toothache so the first order of the day was to find a dentist.  With the help of the hotel and a chemist and a lot of walking this was reasonably easily accomplished and he was seeing a dentist by about 9.30.  The dentist considered pulling out the tooth but after X-rays and general consideration decided that the best thing was to put him on antibiotics and for him to see a dentist when he got home (24hr later it is feeling considerably better)

This accomplished we found a laundry and with the help of some locals mastered the machines.  I always think using foreign laundries is a dementia screening test (we passed just). Now we are considerably nicer to be near

Avignon has really been the goal of this trip and we have reached it a lot earlier than we anticipated.  What to do next was therefore up in the air.  With the heat and the iffy tooth we have decided that it is probably the best idea to advance our return home by a week.  So the intention is to stay in Avignon till Sunday then return to Lyon and fly home on Wednesday.  I lot of  organisation to do with the zero phone connection here and very patchy internet

It is done however. Qatar Airways were not easy to deal with on line but I have changed our flights to next Wednesday.  ( amazingly with only a $100 NZ fee) Have a train booked  to Lyon on Sunday and the hotel with the best sounding air conditioning in Lyon till our departure.

One of our major challenges was always going to be what to do with the bikes at the end.  We could have put them in a storage unit here but that is expensive and commits us to another cycle tour starting in Avignon.  We have solved our problem in a very satisfactory way.  The man who runs the hotel is very involved in a local charity and we have given them to him.  He is delighted and they will be very much appreciated. Just the outcome we were hoping for

By the time  we went out to dinner a slight wind had come up so it felt a bit cooler.  Ken said he had the best meal he has had -it was a fillet of fish with vegetables of various sorts and sauces.  All is well we will have an explore of Avignon in the morning tomorrow and then hide out the heat of the afternoon and drink lots of water