Continuing on from Carcassonne to the next stop on the antiquities part of the tour, we stopped in Neims on our way to a couple of days stay in Arles (more about Arles in a later post). Click this link to see a Google Map showing the southern France locations of Neims and Arles.
This is one of the gates of the Roman fortifications dating to Augustus’ time.
A view of the Neims coliseum. It surprised me that structures of this origin and scale remained in France. As we were to learn in the days and weeks ahead, they weren’t alone.
Part of Charlotte and Allister’s assignment while away from school is to do a project, apparently in both English and French, that describes some of the early Roman and Greek culture. So, I guess this picture counts as homework for them. It didn’t work that way in Laura-Lyn or my day. 
