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18.07.08 Friday.
Juillan to Lourdes.
Last night we made contact with Graham and went out for a meal at the Argentine grill down the road. We walked out after paying for our pastis, the tapas starters were indescribably bad fast food deep fried breaded mush, never ever done that before but feel it was well deserved. We went back to the hotel and had a very good meal if a little nouvelle cusine that left us a bit hungry in the morning when we walked off to Lourdes, George was an enthusiastic participant walking four times further than the rest of us. Lunch was taken in the shade at the side of a track with our feet in a dry ditch (we had to cram in the full pilgrim experience for Graham in only one day).
After lunch we walked down into the little village of Bartres where the miracle of Bernadette was reputed to have happened. We passed the fountain of Bernadette with its huge car park for a couple of dozen coaches and rapidly on down into Lourdes to a remarkably pleasant campsite called Domec just of the main road into Lourdes. We then went shopping for a good meal to await the arrival of Betsy and Jane from Bordeaux in their hire car.
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