Atlanthal 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 were invited to say and tour other little towns in this area.

We go up to a hill overlooking the city of Bayonne. First we stop in at a little church yard and look at the unique tomb stones. Most are not marked with a date or name. The church has a unique glass window. The view over the valley is very picturesque. There is a sundial with the distances to various places around the world.

After lunch we go to the beaches if Biarritz. It is a huge beach ...

We were going to have another look at the churches until we found out that they are closed on Mondays, so we boogied on down the road.

The countryside here is farming, grains and fruits. There are lots of the wind turbines, I mean lots of them all across the hills and in between there are rows and rows of huge solar panels.

We get to the town of Pamplona and are looking for information signs or directions to find out where the running of the bulls ...

... on est partis mais le soleil est sorti dans lapres midi et cest ca qui ma tuer le dos.... fais chier mais ca arrive a chaque debut de lete a la plage. je fais du bodyboard dans des vagues de 2 a 3 metre de haut et le courant est assez fort aussi... faque je fais mon workout tout les jours lol!! jai rencontrer un paquet de austalien a notre auberge et cest fou comment tout le monde pense que je canada cest frette a lannee longue. moi je suis en camisole tout les ...

... asked for anything better from my first night and after breakfast with those guys I split to start my second mission. Finding a -cheap- surfboard, which is not so easy in Anglet I found out when I asked people at the bar the night before. Anyways, I found a sweet deal on a 6'0 Simon Anderson (if you know boards then you know :) ). I also spent some time talking to Vince who works at one of the many surf shops on the promenade ...