Novotel Biarritz Anglet

Tom and Sue took the day to zip to Bilbao (1:45 south of Biarritz) to see the famous Guggenhiem Museum. Wow, what a building!! The exhibits pale in comparison, but still we enjoyed a solid 4 hours at the museum. Afterwards, we drove back to San Sebastian where Sue introduced me to Alona Berri, the ...

I don't really need to tell you what we did do I? Take one part playground, one part beach, and one part sunset and you have a Kramer day in Biarritz.

           

Judy spent the day with Pierre, a former wrestler and French Olympic wresting coach (he went with the team to Atlanta) who she had met on the train ride a few days ...

We spent the morning touring our recently discovered Bayonne with the kids and Judy continued exploring during the afternoon ...

... cathedral and adorable cobble stone streets. Since it was sunday, the only place open was a small creperie, but we had a nice time nonetheless which Judy watched the kids.

             

Farmor took an 11am train back to Paris and we were down to just one Grandma! The weather continued to be ideal and we enjoyed another great beach day and a wonderful sunset meal on our patio. Yeah Biarritz!!

   

We arrive at Francois and Alain's home just after noon. The GPS gets us there without any problems. They have a beautiful home and lovely gardens with lots of trees and flowers. Francois is on holidays for the week, she is an anesthesiologist at a local clinic/hospital and Alain has been retired for the last couple of years.

Francois has a collection of over 600 miniature perfume bottles, I have never ...

... the chaos. I see the clientele. I have nothing in common with any of these people. Anyone who would subject themselves to that, let alone enjoy it, I don't want to have anything to do with. Anyway, the coastline has been gorgeous (Tofino meets northern Cali) but it's time to leave. The tourists are really getting to me, not to mention the traffic. Into the hills I go! The Pyranees! Next stop, Pamplona, Spain.

... positive, beautiful places. The cemetery in Comillas had started inside the gates of a solid, 14th century church, on a prominent hill overlooking the sea (which, no doubt, made a significant contribution to populating the cemetery). At some stage the roof of the church collapsed and people moved their worship elsewhere but the cemetery remained. When the "official" cemetery was full people just started burying their loved ones inside the church and now, watched over by a winged ...

... in the passenger seat and a beer in his hand so needless to say I didn't take him up on the offer. (just an aside... as I am writing this guy who found paper mache deer just sat down!...small world when your travelling) so a few moments later a guy a true beauty of a man pulled up and asked me for a light and if I wanted a ride, now I´m not into long hair or anything but this guy was tres beautiful, had the romance novel look, but not ...