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| Photo of Esperaza "Map" Find the Church, Town Square and look right Circled is where we live... |
Can't believe we've finished our 2nd week here in Esperaza.
I think we finally feel like we live here.
We've explored the town, taken a few "trips" out of town to discover the area,
with our landlady, Sophie, and on our own.
The following photos will show you the town, our sojourns out of town
and the activities around the town at this time of year.
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| The "Mairie" - The town hall all the information you want/need to know about the town of Esperaza is here, I think |
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| The Cultural Center French Class and Yoga once a week for us |
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| Le Cantou where we had dinner our first night |
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| Dinosaur Museum It was closed this day - have yet to go in |
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| Gare Esperaza waiting booth by the tracks and station house that is not used |
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| Walking down the street |
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| Street Houses |
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| The church on the village square |
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| The River Aude the familiar sighting of trout fisherman |
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--Sojourns out of Esperaza--
Sophie and Guilhem took me to the coast the first Wednesday...
a beautiful drive through the mountians
and to the beautiful beach shore
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| Driving through the mountains to the coast |
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| Guilhem on the beach |
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| Guilhem is happy after a day at the beach |
Another day, John and I walked/hiked to Quillan - 8 km!
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| In the Gare Quillan parking lot waiting for the bus to take us back to Esperaza |
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| Bocci ball anyone??? next to the Gare parking lot |
Carcassone on the train...
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| From the train station to Le Cite (the walled city) |
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| There it is... |
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| The train back to Esperaza |
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| Chocolat Chaud in the walled city |
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It's Carnivale time around here now.
Saturday afternoon, the children of Esperaza were in the square,
in the evening after 9:00 pm, the adult children gathered...
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| Costumes and prizes, then... |
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| the parade around the town square |
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We were getting ready to get into our pajamas and
we heard the band at the far end of the square (at the pub)
The parade came around to our end of the square
so John and I put on our shoes and joined the fun
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Costumes for the annual Carnivale Parade |
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| More people, more costumes... |
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| The Band - where all the noise comes from |
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| In the pub with the Harlequin |
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| John and Jean Jacques (the so called Mayor of Esperaza???) |
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| Lots of singing and bier before moving on to the next bar We didn't follow - we didn't understand anything anyone said the whole time we were in the pub |
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Another Sunday Market Day...
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| Fromage from "our" cheeseman he was please to hear us practice our French... "Je voudrai un morceau de fromage, s'il vous plait" |
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| Paella is popular in this Catalon region |
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| Poulet Roti, s'il vous plait... |
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| Fausses Fluers anyone? makes for a pretty picture |
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So ends another week in France...
What's up for next week????
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