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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.

           

... 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.

                   

... area was, much much better. We still sucked, really not as easy as we thought it would be, we tried for a good 3 hours, then bailed cause our arms we barely paddling at the end.

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We arrived to Roncesvalles from Madrid at 1pm so we decided to start our trip that afternoon.
After take our first pictures we asked the people from the village we began our trip, we felt very strong as if we were going to eat the world!!!

Roncesvalles was amazing, our first impression of the Camino couldn't be greater, the refuge is like a great castle, there we get our first stamp!!!

The Camino has started! Buen Camino!

... noisy laughing became panicked screaming as one of the boats (Mom & daughter) hit a rock and capsized near the bridge. Dad and son had no idea what to do and were panicking also. With no English spoken and panic in full swing we managed to convince them to let go of the submerged canoe and let us take it to shore. We wanted them to swim to shore but we are now prett sure they couldn't swim at all. At least they had ...

... now I know, don't miss the 10:10pm bus.   Besides making my move and trying to figure out the bus schedule, it has been a pretty calm week. Yesterday I met with some friends and went to the Saturday market in Tolosa. There we met with more friends for some drinks and pintxos. One of them is a teacher and asked me to come talk to her class of 9-year olds about America. After the market I came home and got ready to watch some basketball. My team had a game ...

... Spanish, but for us Canadians it was good enough. We spent several hours lying on the beach and testing the chilly waters every once in awhile. After that we had some tapas and a coffee and headed back to the room. From there we did a bit of shopping and then made our way to the bar to watch Spain play against Sweden in the Eurocup. On our way we ran into another political rally. We first knew something was up when we saw some police in full riot gear! Despite the riot ...

... kust tot we door onze Engelse medezeilers worden opgeroepen om af te zwaaien naar Saint Jean de Luz , een prachtige baai , waar je heerlijk kunt zwemmen. Deze oproep laten we niet onbetuigd en draaien weldraai een prachtige baai in en pikken een boei op. Inderdaad, het water is er heerlijk. Tegen de avond gaat het enorm waaien, we maken kennis met een nieuw fenomeen de Galernas, een wind die op ons neerdaalt indien het erg heet is geweest. We worden verschillende keren ...