Avignon, the city of popes, is a beautiful, walled city that is famous for its university and charm. But more importantly, it is famous for its annual summer theater festival, held in July each year. It is difficult to contemplate attending the productions unless your French is fairly fluent, but just to walk the streets, and enjoy the young actors as they entertain you trying to sell you on their production, is entertainment enough. Then there are the singers, musicians and dancers, jugglers, and so many other forms of street theater, it is fascinating, the energy exciting.
In Avignon, there are many good restaurants, but somehow we always end up at this small Vietnamese restaurant which is inexpensive and friendly service. Usually after a few weeks of French food it is a refreshing change.
The actors spend hours and days before the festival begins hanging posters advertising their performances all over the city, climbing walls and poles going ever higher than their competitors, only to tear them all down after their show has closed.
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