Carpentras, Fontaine de Vaucluse and L’Isle sur la Sorgue

Today was a day of  exploring and we visited three local towns.  

Carpentras has a market on Fridays so we explored that and had some nice market food for lunch with Gordon enjoying a stuffed tomato and me a merguez sandwich.  We visited the synagogue in Carpentras, which is quite an historic synagogue, and saw the former cathedral.  

Then we went on to Fontaine de Vacluse, which is a town with a huge spring – the biggest in France and the fifth biggest in the world.  It’s also a bit of a tourist trap so we didn’t spend ages there. 

We moved on to L’Isle sur la Sorgue and continued exploring, seeing a water wheel. 

After a rest at the campsite we went out to dinner, going to a restaurant in the next village, called Saint Colonne, and the restaurant was called La Colonne.  We enjoyed an excellent dinner and a good night’s sleep afterwards.