2 Broke Girls in Lourdes

Lourdes. A city known as a place for the catholic pilgrimage. Though I'm not a catholic, and the only reason why I went to this city is to accompany my catholic bestie, I find the city as a gem nearby the pyrenes mountain. :)

Lourdes - 07/05/2016

08.00 - Early morning alarm by INVI! The very spirited and excited bestie. I started the morning rather moody hahahhaa... (sorry bestie!) I guess I'm still tired of the journeys before hahha. Anyhow, we start our journey going to the sanctuary.
09.00 - Took the city bus from the train station.
09.15 - We bought some bread first at the nearby supermarket (Expensive!) for breakfast. Girls gotta eat man! Guess this is why i'm quite moody hahha.
09.30 - Enter the sanctuary, start by seeing around the hugeee castle (actually a church tho). To me this is like the disney castle - catholic version! :P

I couldn't help but to take a pic of this old couple. They're so sweet! The hubby is holding his wife shaking hands while talking to her (or praying?). Anyhow, I pray for their well being and happiness. :)

10.30 - Me and bestie separate as she want to go pray at the cave (the queue are pretty long!), and I went to the via dolorosa.





01.00 - Meet up with bestie back after a session of solitude and meditation hehe, I need to erase my morning crankiness.



01.30 - We went to see the hugee underground basilica.
02.00 - Lunch! I guess this is our first time eating at a restaurant in Europe. LOL. The waiter actually advised my friend to eat and not to see her phone! :P
03.00 - Went to see The château fort de Lourdes! The hiking is pretty steep --' as the city is kinda hilly and the castle is actually located up high on the hill!!

03.30 - Arriveedd! (with tired feet), paid the entrance as students and enter the old castle/fort/museum. :P We circle around the castle, saw the early living of the locals back at the old age. (the peasants room is actually bigger than mine! Hahha). Got to see Lourdes the whole city from the top of the hill too. Climb the tower (not a good idea), then saw the miniatures of old houses back in the old age. :P

06.00 - went back to the sanctuary for refilling the water bottle (with the 'blessed' water :P).
06.30 - buying souvenirs
07.00 - eating ice cream while waiting for the bus schedule
08.00 - end up staying at the sanctuary due to curiosity of people lining up, apparently there is a mass. I find the mass to be beautiful for people around the world praying with their own language. One heart despite nationality differences. Seee, tolerancee!!!

The people are lifting up lanterns but my poor camera is not really capable of taking good pic in the dark --' 

09.00 - mass ended, go back to the airbnb hotel :)

Lourdes - 08/05/2016

07.30 - woke up
08.00 - went to the station just to know that no buss is available on sunday --'. So we bought the train ticket back to Tarbes. Goodbye Lourdes!
09.00 - Arrived at Tarbes and now confused how to get to our bus station as yess.. there was no local buss on sunday!!!!! So, we took a cab and.... apparently the bus stop is pretty in the middle of no where... So we started to worry, re-check everything and decided to trust our gut. So we stayed sitting on the road waiting for the buss. I guess people are wondering what are these 2 asian girls doing in the middle of no where hahha.
10.00 - HALELUJAH!! The buss came! We were not in a wrong place, thank God! Hahha! Enter the buss and I just fell asleep.
01.00 - Arrived back at toulouse! Loving this city! We met with invi's friend who apparently live in Toulouse.
01.15 - Walk around Toulouse to eat some pastries cake :P
02.00 - ate a banana something cake, full with cream and crusty bottom! VERY NICE! oh, why do I forgot the name of the cake? T__T, The hot chocolate is pretty nice too. I ordered vanila green tea as my drink (very soft, me love it!). Another cake we tried has something with pistachio which we don't really like it. Note: The cake served in a hugeee portion! Careful of eating too much, you'll get nauseated. :S
04.00 - Went back to the buss station walking.
05.00 - Said goodbye to Olivier, and got into the buss going toooo... Barcelona Spain!!
05.00 - 10.00 - South of France certainly is veryyy beautiful! lots of castles on the hill! Me likey :P. Anyhow, the buss is really stuffy! feels like there's no air circulation erghh... --'
10.00 - Finally arrived in Barcelona!!! Took the subway to get to airbnb home.
12.00 - After confusions and almost getting lost, finally got to our host home and rest. :)


to be continued... in Barcelona.. :)