Here are a few pictures:
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| A Cathedral under construction: each new steeple being built costs 2 million Euros! |
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| Un rue au centre ville (a sidestreet in downtown) |
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| Le Chateau de Pau where Henri IV was born and slept in a turtle shell instead of a carriage. |
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| Gardens outside of the Chateau de Pau |
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| This quarter of town is on the Rue de Pyrénées and has gorgeous architecture. There is also supposed to be an amazing view of the mountains, but it was a cloudy day. |
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| l'Hotel de Ville |
The town of Pau is extremely old and has a lot of cute shops which are all 30-80% off right now because of the huge bi-annual sale France has every July and January. :) New wardrobe perhaps?
A few new friends and I went out to lunch after our tour and quickly learned that you have to be very direct if you want to eat; just because you sit down in a restaurant does not mean that you want to eat there according to the French. We sat for a long time without so much as a glance or a menu from the owner until we realized that we just had to go ask. However, when we went to the counter to order the man gave us an how-dare-you look, so we are still a bit confused as to how we are supposed to go about dining in this city.
After that I took the bus home where I found my long-lost suitcase waiting for me. Hazzah!
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