October 30. La Reole. Rest day.

Narrow little bar.

This weekend is La Reole’s annual Millennial Festival – it’s supposed to be huge…and we will be missing it 😢

The cables from the suspension bridge are in this café. So very odd.

Ken wanted me to take a picture of this lady in the kebab place because her head wrap reminded him so much of VerMeer’s Lady with a Pearl Earring”.

Cobblestone crosswalk.

Le mew. Pet me.

The town is built on a cliff above the river so they’ve put in an outdoor elevator which goes from river level up four stops.

I felt sorry for this dog. He was so happy playing with this stick and he dropped it five times for his owner to throw it but she kept ignoring him. Finally he dropped it right at her feet so she gave it a toss.

The Bugsnax are being tourists today.

Teensy came out too.

I had to laugh at the sign at the entrance to the church.

Please close the door to avoid the invasion of the cats.

The dastardly feline invaders. They do look pretty shifty-eyed, don’t they?

We were lucky enough to hear the organist practicing on this huge pipe organ.

This candle is for my dear friend from high school – Mary Ann OG.

The church had a map of France and a world map and asked pilgrims to stick a pin in the place you are from. For some reason Lac La Biche didn’t make the map so I had to make an educated guess. We are the red pin north of the 2 pins in Calgary.

For Halloween, stores that were giving out candy put these stickers on the doors so kids would know they could stop in for a treat.

Medieval timbered house but it really bothered Scott that they were able to grow pitcher plants on the windowsill…and we have to go trudging through swamps in spring and summer to find them.

Not sure what I think about this fuzz.

It’s always good to have a rest day every 7 days or so  to give feet and knees and backs a rest. Scott and I did most of the exploring while little Kenny had a nap.

We’ve also strategized the remainder of our trip and booked a November 28 flight home (November 29 flights were $400 more each!)   In order to keep to our schedule and be able to walk into St Jean Pied de Port plus meet Antonio in Santiago, we are skipping ahead by about 80 Km. So tomorrow is a train day.