Day 44 - Nogaro to Saint Palais

After a peaceful night at Christine’s lovely house in Nogaro we were up early for a crazy day of travelling.
We left to the wonderful scent of a jasmine hedge, then headed for the first bus stop.
Half an hour later we are in the market town of Aire sur l’amour. A bustling little place with a good range of shops. It was hot today so after a wander around we sat in the park for a bit as we had 3 hours to kill before the next bus!!
We ate in a busy sports cafe - just beating the 12.00 hordes that poured in.
Then the bus to Pau - a fairly large French city which has an interesting ‘funincular’ a kind of cable car that took you up the steep hill from the station to the city. The front was quite grand and had an art deco type look. Simon imagined Poirrot tottering out of one of the buildings to solve a case!
We went on a quest for a supermarket to get a few provisions in for this evening as we were going to be late arriving in our accommodation.
Next step was a train from Pau to Orthez. Sadly we hit rush hour so was a Ghandi type scene on the platform 😳 not fun in the heat and with rucksacks!!
Final leg was a bus to Saint Palais our final night in France. The bus journey took us through a number of towns. We felt these definitely reminded us of Greek towns, feeling more southern now.
We spotted the Pyrénées mountains for the first time and attempted a photo from the bus - wasn’t great.
So we rest up in prep for a bus journey to Hendaye tomorrow then we walk into Spain 🇪🇸.Read more