Three trains and nine hours moves us from the coastal beauty of the Cote d’Azur (Antibes), to the very hilly interior region of Le Puy. A small example of the “hilly” can be seen in the photo, below, of Bill bringing the suitcase to the hotel. 
Over the next several days, we will photograph this area; today we’ll focus on the church and our hotel room.
Or room is at La Demeure du Lac de Fugeres, a small B & B located in a 15th century building in the old city. It is exceedingly charming, but a bit difficult to find! Here’s a photo of the sleeping area: 
As we have spread all our backpacking gear over the other parts of the room, this is the only photo we’ll share.
Like most European villages, the local church here is beautiful. It is built on a hill in the center of the old town. Here is Diane standing in front: 
The amazing thing is what happens at night! The entire church facade becomes a projector screen for some amazing animation. We will try to upload some sort videos:
Hopefully, these work as the show was phenomenal.
Today, we’re have a bunch of housekeeping chores and finalizing our backpacks for tomorrow’s walk. Not the least of our chores is to insure that our plans to have our suitcase shipped to the finish line (St. Jean Pied de Port) really are set. Just details.
Thank you, all for being part of our journey. Tomorrow the French Camino (chemin) begins!
The projections are pretty amazing. Thank you for sharing your adventures! I’m at the point with this pregnancy, where I’m having trouble walking at all so I’ll just live vicariously through my parent’s adventures.
We are so thankful that you are enjoying these posts. Actually, LePuy has these projections in several locations throughout the city. The absolute coolest is that they project onto a rocky spire where a church is built on top. For 15 minutes you see the volcano erupting and forming the spire, the church being built 800 years ago, wars, winters and a dragon or two thrown in for goid measure. It really is like nothing we’ve seen before … that cool! The videos that we took are of poor quality so i may not pas them. We’ll see.