What’s in a Nimes?
I was in the middle of writing the Nimes post when it got erased. I’ll rewrite it later, but here’s the pics for now. Deal with it.
Ok, here’s the skinny on Nimes: Nice city, but terrible town. Arles was small and quaint. Winding streets, blind corners, and lots of places to get lost. I loved Arles. Nimes, on the other hand, grew up a bit more.
Nimes has a bigger coloseum than Arles, and the city is much more spread out. You can tell that it’s been like thes for several hundred years just by looking at where things are in Nimes. It’s quite a distance between historic monuments and buildings. Statues and temples are spread out over a pretty large area, so Ntahna and i walked a lot in Nimes.
While I really liked the things I saw in the city, I wasn’t impressed by the city as a whole. My main goal in traveling to places like these is to see the older architecture and infrastructure. Nimes is very much a modern city build around older sections.
I’ll certainly go back to Nimes, but only for one thing. I want to camp out in the coloseum. The way it’s setup, you could easily just not go out at closing time. I want to take a tripod, a couple of off camera flashes and do some long exposure night photography in the hallways of the coloseum. THAT would be amazing.
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You can see still larger versions of these at Flickr as well.
