Lourdes, France Travel Blogs

Good Lourdes, what a place!

A travel blog entry by lifeinbrian

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We thought it might be culturally enlightening to visit Lourdes on Easter Friday. We allotted 2 hours to the visit which had to include finding the tourist information office, the basilica, the grotto of the vision and getting an ice cream. After ...

Oh Lourdes

A travel blog entry by kristinj

Giant Catholic Pilgrimage, with 5 million visitors a ...

Stopover

A travel blog entry by anna_ian

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... coast, but the drive was too long and after about 9 hours we had to stop. The town we ended up being closest to was Lourdes. This is a very holy town, where the Virgin Mary appeared in 18 visions in 1858. The 14-year old peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous ...

Lourdes and Carcasonne pics

A travel blog entry by devonandsarah

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Here are pictures from Lourdes and ...

A special evening

A travel blog entry by ethansamjencol

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... a staircase and a half, Ethan and I ran down (well almost 'bounced' down the side) - very fun. We got to Lourdes early afternoon and found hotel to stay at thanks to the information centre. We wandered around town (our hotel was in a ...

Hiking in the Pyrenees

A travel blog entry by jacquieanddave

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After leaving Interlaken we travelled into France. We had wanted to get to Lourdes, one of the gateways to the Pyrenees, in one day which seemed pretty feasible looking at our Eurail Map. In checking with the Railway though it turned out that the only ...

Good Lourdes

A travel blog entry by lisamurphy

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... our little bottles (about 10...we had so many requests!) paid the corresponding 10 euro and headed off to the grotto to fill them. Lourdes asks alot of questions about your faith. You line up to go into the Grotto with 1000 other people all pushing and ...

Lourdes

A travel blog entry by emilyb

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... or with verses that alternate languages, and each mystery is said in each of the six official languages of the Lourdes sanctuaries (French, Italian, English, Spanish, German, and Dutch). Lots of groups who were there carried signs or flags proclaiming ...

Travelling

A travel blog entry by vana30

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... a few times, but made it. We had lunch at a small cafe on the top of the mountain. Then Anna and I toke the bus to Lourdes (we wouldn`t all fit in the car). We walked down to the grotto and drank from the spring (it is supposed to have healing powers, ...

Sunday Easter Sunday

A travel blog entry by carolynmagnus

... had left red roses. Beautiful views I can never forget of snow-capped Pyrenees. (warning, philosomicating ahead) And that's what Lourdes for me became, a time to remember things from my given religion and a time to forget modern hang-ups on issues of ...

I lost my sunglasses + Paris tomorrow!

A travel blog entry by knopfler

... , we walked around really for most of the day and went into several museums/chapels/etc. in the area in and around the Lourdes shrine. We went into this cool wax museum (of the Catholic holy figures) after lunch and that was somewhat entertaining. I spent ...

I am amazed

A travel blog entry by neverold

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... My thought was that if you didn’t hold it high enough it would give you a personal black eye. Lourdes itself was an interesting place in the Pyrenees Mountains and a good stop over place for our trip into the mountains. ...

Our Lady of Lourdes

A travel blog entry by megantrent

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... to our lady and every evening there was a candle procession and lovely singing. I had my turn bathing (being dunked) in Lourdes water from the underground Grotto and the water that comes from the spring is the freshest water I have ever ...

Carolyn Maher and the Pips

A travel blog entry by carolynmagnus

March 24-25 After a quick dinner later that night, headed out to the train station for my midnight train to Paris. I'm going back to find, going back to fihhnd, oh a simpler place in time. Now, before I left a particular academic situation arose ...

Waiting for Paris

A travel blog entry by knopfler

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... now onwards due to popular demand. I don't even know why I'm actually skipping it though. Alriiiight, on to business .. I'm in Lourdes! Jesus! Yeah! Took the train from Toulouse to Lourdes today afternoon and I listened to my iPod (I need to ...

Y por fin llegaron las vacaciones!!!!!

A travel blog entry by coco_acg

... imposible conseguir hotel (Gracias a Dios por que un dia antes cayó una ventisca de nieve que hizo los pirineos del lado español inaccesibles). Tuvimos que hacer un par de cambios, el primero de ellos empezando por la visita a la Virgen de ...

The religious leg of my journey...

A travel blog entry by saturn_adrift

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For any of you who do not know, Lourdes in the south of France is roman catholic miracle country. It is where a well documented visitation from the virgin Mary occured. What this means is that every convenience store in the area has an ample supply of ...

Lourdes

A travel blog entry by turkey_to_tt

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... the first evening in town we both participated in the procession and Kerrie the second while Greg took a video and still shots. Lourdes is a conundrum. It is a mixture of the gaudy and the crass that clearly aims to maximize the tourist dollar as the ...

Lourdes, France

A travel blog entry by our_europe_trip

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... it was still 100 degrees, but it felt like Antarctica compared to the 140 degree train. I have mixed emotions emotions about Lourdes. Visiting the grotto, seeing all the lit candles, the praying pilgrims, and feeling the spring water in the spot where ...

Overnight train to Rome

A travel blog entry by our_europe_trip

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We had lunch at a great French cafe. Surprisingly, the French have been very nice. Havent met a single snob yet. We hang around Lourdes during the day and head to the train station for our overnight train to Rome. We have a 6 person couchette that is ...

Healing

A travel blog entry by pilgrimthomas

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For a number of reasons, I never thought I find myself here. But having experienced Lourdes, I know why I was led here...for healing of mind, body and soul. This is the miracle of Lourdes. ...

Visions

A travel blog entry by ksunderhill

... of such faith and belief in the catholic religion. It was also a city his parents visited many years ago. Lourdes is a town in the southwest of France, at the foot of the Pyrenees. It has been a major sight for Roman Catholic pilgrimage since 1858 ...

One afernoon in Lourdes

A travel blog entry by whatsnext

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Five hours in ...

The tour begins

A travel blog entry by jimimorag

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... on the tour. 2115m above sea level from 300m above sea level. That was done in 17km! Then headed into the town of Lourdes where we found a spot to watch the last 500m of the stage. (Jimi and I were standing on a large windowsill to get the best ...

Lourdes

A travel blog entry by shananigans

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For the record, Lourdes Holy Water does not cure hangovers. Lourdes was really a beautful experience. It is a cute bustling village constantly filled with pilgrims from all over the world. The Tour de France was moving in town and nearby Pau ...

2nd Day Cycling - day of the accident

A travel blog entry by tomvonkaenel

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... the way. The first example was a Dutch cyclist who stabilised me, kept me conscious and got the ambulance so I could be in Lourdes. The doctors and nurses at Lourdes confirmed the extent of my injuries and I spent the next four days in Intensive Care, ...

2nd day in Lourdes

A travel blog entry by lagalag1

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... ; ham on baguette bread for lunch. Did two of the Station of the Cross,It is in a steep hill. Went to the Lourdes Castle on top of a hill and visited the Pyreness museum.It is an ethnology museum ,Saw a coiled candles for funerary use, and ...

day 6

A travel blog entry by vgap

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... -maman, Mimi Kret, and le Père Pallard boarded the bus in Niort at 5:30 in the morning and journeyed all day to Lourdes. The bus was a "Greyhound" type with comfortable seats and a bathroom in the back. The trip was fine; the only complaint being that ...

day 7

A travel blog entry by vgap

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Aujourd'hui on est allée à l'église à la Basilique de Lourdes. On est aussi allée acheter des souvenirs de Lourdes. Après, on est allée voir une église souterrain. Translation: Today we went to church at the Lourdes Basillica. We also went to ...

day 9

A travel blog entry by vgap

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Aujourd'hui on est allée pour un autre marche de chandelle puis notre amie, Arlète a tombé sur un marche dans un flac d'eau et elle a casser le talon de son talon haut! Et après il-y-avait une autre madame que je ne connais pas mais elle a fait ...

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Good Lourdes, what a place!

Oh Lourdes

Stopover

Lourdes and Carcasonne pics

A special evening

Hiking in the Pyrenees

Good Lourdes

Lourdes

Travelling

Sunday Easter Sunday

I lost my sunglasses + Paris tomorrow!

I am amazed

Our Lady of Lourdes

Carolyn Maher and the Pips

Waiting for Paris

Y por fin llegaron las vacaciones!!!!!

The religious leg of my journey...

Lourdes

Lourdes, France

Overnight train to Rome

Healing

Visions

One afernoon in Lourdes

The tour begins

Lourdes

2nd Day Cycling - day of the accident

2nd day in Lourdes

day 6

day 7

day 9