I arrived in the 27th Lourdes and took to a Taxi to meet Aidan and Caroline at Listell Bethlehem in the south of France. It was beautiful to get there not because a river ran by it with emerald green tint but to see my friends with their heads poking out of a church refuge. With the help from two fisherman I found them. As we walked to the next town called Arudy i didn’t know what to expect. But what happened was a 22 mile walk that kicked my ass. As we got to Arudy we stayed in the is ex French teacher turned priest that was obsessed with Joan Biaz, he had seen her 4 times in concert and proceeded to get more excited when I told him that Joan Biaz went to my high school. As he continued to sing along to words he did not understand, but only the beauty of her voice two people walked in. They were from Holland, and their names were Anita and Frank. They were glad to see people that spoke English and right away we sparked a friendship. We continued to see them in Oloron-Ste-Marie were we talked for a bit but everyone was tired so we just fell asleep. In the morning we had breakfast with Anita and Frank were we had to way to many expresso shots but we talked. We told them our plans for after the Camino, how me and Aidan were planning to go to Holland after. They told us that when we were there we have an open invitation to stay with them and we are taking them on there offer.  They were the most gracious and thoughtful people I have met on this Camino and I’m glad that I get a second chance to see them again later. Later all of us decided that we would spend a rest day in Oloron-Ste-Marie because it was one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen and we also had a bar that we were already locals at.  As we stayed that night be began to drink and drink. It was getting late and we spent a good amount of money on our beverages so we were almost about to leave when the owner came out and told us what we wanted, but we could afford to buy anymore drinks. He told us “it’s on me you are locals now how big do you want your beers” we said the biggest you got. It was a great night. Than we slept 4 hours and continued to walk. It was worth it.