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| Nimes stadium, more amazing stonework. |
Day 1: in the town centre of Nimes. The kids took a couple of rides. Then we walked around the ancient Roman stadium.
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| The stadium holds about 20,000 people. |
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| Come on ref, been doing it all day! |
The boys learned all about the lives of the gladiators, and their promise to work hard, and accept death by the sword. We saw all the different types from the dudes with the simple swords, to the man with a trident-spear and fishing net. I tried to skip the paintings of the prisoners being fed to the animals.
Not everyone died: gladiators were expensive to train from scratch, and to kit out. So if just wounded, if they'd done well, their lives would be spared.
They still use the stadium today for bull fighting and concerts.
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| Young tourists fishing for crocodiles. |
The symbol of Nimes is a crocodile chained to a tree. So that's why there's a fishing game with crocs here.
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