Lapalud is a plain little town, not particularly a tourist destination, but a pleasant residential community. The center of town is layed out in a circle, with the building fronts forming the once-defensive protective wall, and a ring of platane trees.
Some typical commerce includes a pharmacy and post office.
The bar Le Penalty is probably a bit better. On a road map, Lapalud appears to be on the RN7 highway. In fact, the town is beside the road but quite isolated from it, and appears fairly quiet. A short walk through the fields beside the town gives a nice view across the plains to Mount Ventoux to the east. Arriving here on a Saturday in early March, the town seemed completely dead - the streets empty of people.