SNCF lets me book the night train ticket I want online, even giving me a car and seat number. Yet the woman at the counter at the train station claimed there were no seats available.

Maybe they have a quota for each category.

I'd book my ticket online but it needs to be mailed to an address.

There seem to be no beds in Avignon (I suspect the July festival is on at that time) and the camping site has a hideous flash applet for its website, and a stupid PDF that takes forever to load and crashed the browser. I'm going to sleep in Nimes for another night - it's only 1/2 hr from Avignon or so.

At any rate Reims is now out of the question. I've had a church overload already and will see some more along the way, anyhow. Perhaps I can do Chartes and Reims when I return to the Unparalleled Gardens of Versailles without the Unparalleled Idiot.

I wonder how those who travel in July not knowing where they'll be the next week survive.