Traveling West Europe in COVID era

 I took a free walking tour to get some history of Bordeaux by an Irish guide who has perspective of French living for today (that was different from what a native French lady took the tour). I also saw one marker of the French pilgrim trail towards the Camino de Santiago. Even the gate has a statute pointing his hand to the destination: the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain.  After the tour, I checked the inside of the Oprea House, went back to the Bar a Vin Ecole du Vin Bordeaux to get a glass of 2€ 2020 Rose (subsidized by the government), and ran into the French tour taker by accident. We had a nice chat before going separate ways.  I took local bus to a winery Château du Taillan (run by the 5th generation 5 sisters）to take an English tour at 4 pm and made a new friend, a Mexican exchange student taking 2-day trip from Paris. We toured the Château for 30 minutes, tasted 7 kinds wine，walked around

 My 6.5 hr BlaBlaCar ride into Bordeaux was long but fun conversation with my driver who wants to work in USA. I made a 25€ mistake by reserving the hostel on the same day. Oh, well this new and trendy hostel is right next to Renaissance Hotel on the rich/left side of La Garnonne River so cost me 44€ a night. I will move to the almost as trendy hostel of 19€ (yet not as wealthy neighborhood) tomorrow.  The 1st thing after dropping my bag was to sign up a wine testing tour via the tourist office. These major wineries do not take individuals walking in as in Porto, Portugal. I also asked info to get to a nearby town for the day after tomorrow.  Bordeaux is often referred to as "Little Paris". As a seasoned traveler, I checked out almost all sites, such as Place de la Bourse and the Water Mirror, Bordeaux Cathedral (St Andrew Cathedral), Quinconces Square, Victory Arch, Girondins memorial, etc., on both banks of the river, and I will sleep in tomorrow morning to take things easy

 I toured the fantastic medieval city Avignon on my own today, covered Palais des Papes, and other attractions across the Rhone River, such as Fort Saint-André (an UNESCO site). “Avignon is famous as it is the city to which the Popes fled when leaving the corruption of Rome in the 14th century. The palace they built, 'Le Palais des Papes,' or the palace of popes, is the world's largest Gothic edifice. “ I walked around the park Jardin des Doms twice to catch the views on different lightings. Since it is getting into low tourist season and no more free walking tours. Worst of all, the city even stoped the bus to a water spring town  Fontaine-de-Vaucluse (which reminds me a similar town in New Zealand. As to two little towns Gordes and Roussillon, the expensive tour will happen 2 days later, and the local connecting bus rides take too long (my interests are not high enough to justify the efforts). Therefore, I arranged a BlaBlaCar to ride to Bordeaux tomorrow.  There are much