Another beautiful week in Pau

 

What do you suppose these two Classic Buildings in Pau have to do with Susie and John?

Palais Beaumont

Hotel de France, Pau
Communauté d’Agglomération/Residence Le France

——We started this week by visiting both of them——

On Sunday, December 1, 2024, we have been told we can stay in our apartment on Rue Henri IV until April.  We have an opportunity to rent an apartment at the Residence Le France (not knowing exactly where/what it is) from April to October.  We make arrangements to see it and are given a time and the address.  Much to our surprise it is the building across the Square from Christie and David’s place.

John is to meet Françiose at 4:00 and I am to meet/visit with Christie after we see the apartment at Place Royale.

So, at 3 pm we meet Andrew (Andre?) at the Residence Le France.  It’s a beautiful, spacious 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom (with a real bathtub), small efficient kitchen and a large living room/dinning room with lots of cupboards, closets and cubbies. Beautiful, large, high windows that view the Pyrenees, the funicular and the Gare (train station) fill the rooms with gorgeous light. I think we will like it there.

I think it’s those two windows

After we see the apartment, we go to Christie and David’s to check in with them. 

Then John goes to meet Françiose in Parc Beaumont. There is a book fair in the Palais Beaumont.

 

John meets friends and acquaintances of Françiose, 

looks at books he can’t read and then buys a calendar.

One of the artists that painted
all the beautiful images

From Christie and David’s apartment we can see Le Residence…

Looking across Place Royal

David is working, so Christie and I escape
to Place Clemenceau

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Household earrands and preparing for French class fills the week.

But…

Wednesday, there was a change in government, Thursday protest marches happen all over France.  Protesters marched past our apartment for about 10 minutes. 

 

A peaceful march. 

(Note there are no rifles, guns, nooses or upside down flags) 

Thursday eve we go out

All bundled up and
ready to go out into the cold

Av de Lattre de Tassigney

Place Clemenceau

We meet Françiose and have some Vin Chaud - yum!

We walk home leaving the lights of Centre Ville

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It’s Saturday - windy, rainy and cold.

It’s a day to stay inside to paint and read

—-So ends another week in Pau—-

Nite, nite