Arles, Market, Names

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The Saturday flea, food, and general market in Arles provided blocks and blocks of shopping, including a booth that sold "viande de cheval" (horse meat). The good news is, except for food (not including horse meat), we found nothing we couldn’t live without.

In a park area near the amphitheater in Arles, an elderly lady (the widow of a former US Navy man), heard us speaking English and wanted to tell her story. She had loved living in the US, but was happy to return to the place of her birth after her husband died.

There are some changes, even in this ancient city. One year we stopped at McDonald’s in downtown Arles for an ice-cream sundae, and they were happy to give us a couple of large cups of ice so we could make ice-tea, American style. Those Golden Arches are a welcome sight for a snack, an ice cube, and for the rest rooms.
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Just inside the entrance of the Amphitheater at Arles, this sign appears. Wonder why they listed just twenty-one, rather than all seventy amphitheaters that were built? We have been to more than a dozen arenas in four countries, including at least seven of the above.