This morning we visited the Fort Lewis College in Durango. This is a university as you already know. It has the distinction of being in a setting of majestic mountains and forests. Students come from all four corners of the USA and abroad with about 20% of "native americans" translate "Indian".
And now discovering this new city in which we find ourselves: Durango is a town of about 16,000 people located almost 2000 meters of altitude. The city name comes from the Basque "Urango" meaning "City of Water". It was founded in 1880 and lives mainly on tourism.
Who said tourism, hotel and said we are fortunate to have lunch at Strater Hotel celebrates built in 1887 by a double minor title since Henry Strater was only 18 years and was working in gold mines. Now this hotel belongs to the family for 3 generations Barker. It is filled with antique furniture and museum pieces dating from the time of the gold rush. The waitresses in the restaurant does not fail to attract the attention of boys with their fishnet stockings, garters and corsets pigeons! We are right in the far west, for sure.
The afternoon is open for shopping and we find a great French bakery products bearing the name of his boss, Jean-Pierre and a fabulous chocolate. We stayed a good half hour before the window to admire a master chocolatier at work. We revisited the famous Pavlov's reflex ...
In late afternoon, everyone returns to spend a lovely evening with family.
Christine
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