Lourdes, August 26 2016 – August 29 2016
I know what you’re wondering, whatever prompted Liam to pay a visit to the religious market town of Lourdes? What led him to visit the third most important site of international Catholic pilgrimage after Rome and the Holy Land? Quite simply, my dear Mother – a devout catholic – was visiting my sister in Spain and expressed her desire to visit this town famous for the Marian apparitions to a peasant girl called Bernadette. With no-one to travel with, she thought about passing up on this opportunity. So I thought I’d help her seize the day and together we embarked on our little visit to the second most important center of tourism in France (after Paris, of course). Read more…