Breakfast this morning was a slice of flan, bought at a patisserie adjacent to the weekly market. I love flan. It’s just custard tart, but with a high custard to pastry ratio. Anne had a myrtille tart. Food is so much better here. It seems to be market day every morning for us.
Day 25, Monday, Ax le Thermes
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Day 24, Sunday, Luchon
It’s Sunday, Luchon is a nice place, Le Patio de Luchon is a nice BnB, we have plenty of time, so we decided to stay another night here.
Shortly after 9am we arrived at breakfast and found the long table occupied by four other couples, all French. The conversation was a bit stilted, but we got by. One guy was an engineer working for Airbus in Toulouse. He said Toulouse is a very unusual city because it is built from red bricks. Maybe we’ll go there. We visited Airbus 5 years ago for the tour of the 380 factory but didn’t enter the city then. Continue reading “Day 24, Sunday, Luchon”
Day 23, Saturday, Luchon
We had a coffee at the cafe near the Mairie in Arudy and watched life go by for a while, found La Poste for some stamps. Bagneres de Luchon looked like a good place to go to next. It has an illustrious record of involvement with the Tour de France, since 1910, most recently in stages 16 and 17 this year. It took only a couple of hours to get there. Anne was happy to look around Luchon for a couple of hours while I went over the Peyresourde and Col d’Aspin Continue reading “Day 23, Saturday, Luchon”