May 30: around Avignon 3
I made my way through the southeastern streets of the old city.
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Elephant-foot bases.
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A zig and a zag.
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At the corner of Rue des Lices and Rue des Teinturiers is the Église des Cordeliers (Franciscan Church); its tower has an appealing spiral-like aspect, at least in this view.
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What is this copper pidge looking at?
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A little streetside canal! The pigeon is still there, still looking at the canal, just to the right of the bridge and left of the blue pots.
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A cryptic bit of public art.
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A somewhat claustrophobic look down Rue Bon Martinet from Teinturiers.
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Again out to the southeastern ramparts, just like the previous evening.
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Off Rue Ninon Vallin, the peripheral route, between Rue Guillaume Puy and Rue Tarasque, a secluded way.
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Rue Tarasque's shenanigans continue with whimsical masonry next door up the street.
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Another view of same; like subtle premonitions of Gaudí.
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A spatially complex little scene back at the canal along Teinturiers.
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A view across the same bridge down Rue Puits de la Tarasque.
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There are a bunch of these all along Rue des Teinturiers, most I think more intact and benchish than this one, and I wonder what their origin is.
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Good choice. If I were a pidge, I would definitely enjoy nesting here.