Etap Hotel Dax Saint Paul les Dax St-Paul-Les-Dax

... Pinxos restaurant she, Ev, and Jullie had loved 3 weeks earlier. It was truly amazing and we enjoyed talking with a lovely british couple who now run a B&B in Provence. Judy and the kids had a wet but fun time, as the weather had finally turned south.

                       

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.

           

... Dispite the language barriers they had a lovely time exploring the basque country side. What did we do? Why go to the beach, of course!!

                     

... the kids slept. Tom did a little surfing and another nice sunset was enjoyed during dinner.

                   

... 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!!

   

... meal institution - Farmor opened her presents which included a beautifully decorated by Evie photo album with pictures from our 11 weeks together. Sue was the inspiration behind the whole idea and Eva was clearly moved (it is hard to make a Swede cry!).

                       

... riding a bike without training wheels, Sue, Tom and Farmor went out to dinner as a "thank you" for Eva's generousity and planning for our trip. Without her, our trip simply would not have been possible. She picked the restaurant and since she wanted steak we ended up at the "OK Corral" which turned out to be a Tex-Mex place. Across ...

... frights. the past ten days or so have been eventful, and much more quickly paced than the previous days. we've covered nearly the same distance in a week and a half or two that we did in the three with tammy, bumping our speed from 20km/day to 29km/day. jeff thought that he had finished with his tendon pains, until yesterday, after dehydrating ourselves the previous day, his tendon wrecked on him, and gave him the worst physical ...

... meal (what´s new) San Seb... met a free spirited hippy on the train (did i mention we had crossed the border by this stage? Yeah, we missed it as well) to San Seb,who took us to a friends pension which was under construction, then to another which was a cupboard with 3 single beds in it.Then it was Siesta and we were screwed as the tourism office was closed and no one would answer us ringing there door bells to enquire about ...