Lourdes, France Travel Blogs

Oh Lourdes
Apr 21, 2007

Giant Catholic Pilgrimage, with 5 million visitors a year

Stopover
Jun 15, 2004 (5 photos)

... , 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 had ...

Lourdes and Carcasonne pics
Feb 11, 2005 (4 photos)

Here are pictures from Lourdes and Carcasonne

A special evening
Jun 19, 2009 (5 photos)

... 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
Sep 14, 2004 (10 photos)

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
Aug 26, 2008 (9 photos)

... 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 snarling ...

Lourdes
Oct 8, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

I lost my sunglasses + Paris tomorrow!
Aug 7, 2006

... , 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 ...

Sunday Easter Sunday
Apr 14, 2008

... 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 ...

Travelling
Feb 17, 2009 (2 photos)

... 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, but ...

Waiting for Paris
Aug 6, 2006 (2 photos)

... 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 download ...

Carolyn Maher and the Pips
Apr 14, 2008

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 that ...

I am amazed
Aug 7, 2009 (3 photos)

... nbsp; 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.  This ...

Y por fin llegaron las vacaciones!!!!!
Apr 2, 2007

... fue 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 Lourdes..

The religious leg of my journey...
Jul 23, 2006 (14 photos)

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, France
Jun 18, 2005 (5 photos)

... 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 the ...

Overnight train to Rome
Jun 19, 2005 (4 photos)

... 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 about ...

One afernoon in Lourdes
May 24, 2008 (25 photos)

Five hours in Lourdes

Lourdes
Jul 22, 2007 (5 photos)

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  ...

2nd Day Cycling - day of the accident
Sep 16, 2009 (1 photos)

... 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, unable ...

2nd day in Lourdes
Apr 18, 2008 (28 photos)

... 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 peasant ...

day 6
Oct 3, 2007 (6 photos)

... Grand-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
Oct 4, 2007 (10 photos)

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 buy some ...

day 9
Oct 6, 2007 (2 photos)

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 la même ...

A spiritual healing...
Aug 3, 2009 (171 photos)

After spending the morning in Carcassonne we decide to high tail it to Lourdes. For those of you who don't know Lourdes is where St. Bernadette was visited by the Madonna and was told to build this magnificent church on top of the grotto where the visions ...

day 8
Oct 5, 2007

On est allée visitée la citée St. Pierre et on est allée un marche de chandelle à 21h00 ce soir. Translation: We went to visit the village of St. Pierre and went for a candle walk this evening at 9:00 pm.  

Lourdes from Bilbao
Apr 17, 2008 (9 photos)

... a taxi to the bus terminal.Took the bus to Hendaye,France. Took the train to Bayonne ansd switch train to go to Lourdes,France. Went to Tourist information office and book a a hotel called Center Hotel.It is centrally located. Walk to the Shrine of ...

pilgrimage
Apr 10, 2009

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3rd day in Lourdes,France
Apr 19, 2008 (6 photos)

... Also the hospice where she work Had lunch at the train station ,also bought the train  tickets  for Carcasonne,France. Went to St.Bernadette Church,where  a mass and banner parade was held. Hear mass at the main church. Recite the ...

Lourdes
Apr 30, 2008