Day 13 - More Lourdes & On The Road

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Peter and I went walking around Lourdes, specifically I wanted to buy an additional flash memory card for my camera. Using 30 year old (and rusty!) neurons, I remembered enough French to ask where the camera store was located, and with samples, gestures and a few odd words, managed to buy what I wanted. Ah, the power of memory. And need.

The street in front of the camera store. Certainly not designed with modern commerce in mind, but pleasant nonetheless.

A nicely maintained building (doctor's surgery, I think) beneath the castle.

The noble Gave River, which was certainly flowing very swiftly.

Detouring In Spain

After leaving Lourdes, we travelled west to the Atlantic coast before re-entering Spain. Not sure why we went so far west - one possibility is to avoid another mountain crossing. Then the driver became "disoriented" when we were planning to stop for a coffee break, and somehow managed to miss the parking lot and then take a wrong turn and end up in San Sebastian, an upmarket city on the Atlantic coast of Spain. It seemed a very pleasant city.

As we were driving past the beach, this large statue appeared. I have not found any reference to it, but I expect it to be a statue of Jesus. St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, was born only 50km from here.

Another part of town.

Towards Pamplona

After leaving the coast the road climbs over moutains towards Pamplona, our night's destination.

Looking into the valleys and hills upon leaving the San Sebastian area.

Obviously this area receives decent rainfall, judging by the amount of green.

At The Bowling Alley

The new hotel we stayed at in Pamplona was on the outskirts of town, in what appeared to be a business park. It also seemed to be very new, and just getting set up. And across the parking lot was a bowling alley, which lead to the "Group N Bowling Night" extravaganza!

Some of the bowlers probably were in the dark :-)

Well, these ones aren't!

And Yvonne provided the baby minding service for little Harry.


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