Blogs from Lourdes, Midi-Pyrénées, France, Europe - page 3

Salut salut! Désolé, deux facteurs m’ont empêchés d’écrire hier : La fatigue assez prenante et la non-présence d’internet, ce qui n’aide pas les choses! Mais cela étant relégué au passé, voici un petit résumé dont vous saurez vous délecter! L’embarquement et le vol se sont très bien passés. Un léger retard au départ, mais c’est tout. Le repas était meilleur que l’été passé, à un tel point que j’ai terminé l’assiette de Renée et en ai prit une seconde (avec appétit, cette fois). Ça reste ordinaire, mais c’est mangeable! Même problème que l’été dernier : Incapable de vraiment dormir. Cela m’a valu une belle journée de 30-36h avant de fermer l’œil. Une fois à Toulouse, nous avons attrapé la bride de notre monture avant de filer vers Bagnère. Il faut noter que comme la voiture préalablement ... read more

La ville de lourdes, elle est lourde, notre premiere impression cetait une ville un peux mal famé mais bon sava. alors je vous expliquede koi il sagit comme vous le savez tous a longeuil il y a une ecole secondaire privée qui etait anciennement que pour les filles du nom de "NDL" soit " NOus devenons lesbienne" ou alors la version plus sobre de Notre Dame de Lourde, est cette dame de lourdes, cest Sainte Bernadette qui a trouver une source car la Sainte Vierge lui etait apparu 18 fois (cest nimportekoi) donc leveché du coin a fait constuire unb sanctuare et une cathedrale et une crypte et une etc... et cest pour cela quaujourdhui nous pouvons nous baigner dans leau ou sainte Bernadette cest laver le visage ou alors on peu lenbouteiller et ainsi du ... read more

day 3 and 4 of petite pilgrimage so after the abba evening i was pretty tired and didnt get out on the town until about 10am the next day. and you know, the problem with having a town centered around a religious site, is that, theres not much else to see or do. except go up one of the pyrenee mountains in a gondola. holy crap it was insane. i have some cute pics of the town. what made it worse though is that it was a really hot day and being stuck inside a moving gondola thats windows dont open...for liability reasons, with a ton of people who dont speak english and assume your irish cause your hair is turning red in the sun, gets hot.. so while i enjoyed the gondola, i was happy ... read more

Spent the morning travelling to Lourdes and arrived there at around 2pm. It was a beautiful hot day. On our way there though we stopped at a town called Pau and had some lunch and looked at a castle there, this town also had an amazing view of the Pyrenees. Lourdes is a pilgrimage town and apparently about 6 million people visit it each year. It is France´s second most popular city after Paris. We walked down to the basilica that is on top of St Bernadette´s grotto. Mum and I walked around for a while and there was also a walk up a mountain that had monuments showing the stations of the cross and Mum and I did that. Before heading back to the hotel we had an icecream and ran into Shayne and Karen, ... read more

I was actually surprised to have headed to Lourdes so soon after Fatima, but it was the 150th anniversary of the first Marian apparition there so we figured it would be the best time to go! We took a bus to Madrid through the night and then a discount airline to get to Pamplona, where we were staying with a friend of a friend who works at the University of Navarra. The first day in Pamplona we took a bus an hour south to the town of Olite, walked though a huge castle and toured a wine museum where we recieved complimentary bottles of Crianza from the Navarra region. That night we ate at a restaurant frequented by Hemingway, next to the hotel La Perla, where he always stayed. His favorite room 217 is never empty. ... read more