and all tracks leads to Lourdes!

After four hours spent investigating the wheres and the whens of the rail system with Eric Bergman acting as travel consultant and ISP I ran to my atelier and grabbed my bag and wound up on the train to Lourdes. I'll be traveling to Albi from here tomorrow afternoon. Tonite I'll visit the grotto and get a sense of this amazing place... its part vatican, part vegas and a lot of New Orleans. Its the Spanish influence. I am hearing as much Spanish as French on the streets and not a word of English in any dialect.