Pau - Easter Weekend

As it was Easter weekend, Saturday and Sunday were free days for our group to explore the region. Saturday, Kelly and Angela spent the day with one of the Jurancon Rotary members for a tour of Pau and dinner at their home while Elizabeth, Damien, and Charity took a bus from Pau to Gourette to spend the day skiing and snowboarding. It is the closest ski resort at approximately 45 km south west of Pau into the Pyrenees.





On Sunday, one of the Pau Rotary Club members agreed to drive us to Lourdes for Easter mass and a tour of the well known Catholic destination. We were all very surprised at all of the marketing and commercialism that poured into the streets surrounding the cathedral and grotto. What was most interesting, besides the amazing structures, was the number of people who were visiting from all over the world and that services were held to accommodate the various languages and cultures that were represented. Angela and Charity even had the unique opportunity to observe a portion of a Hindi service and were told that a Ukrainian one had been held earlier in the day.



That evening, as all businesses were closed for Easter, we all gathered in one of our hotel rooms for a delicious dinner of cheese, baguette, ham, wine, and of course, chocolate…our five course meal for the evening.