Hotel Amarys Biarritz

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.<br><br>            <br>

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 ...

Another lovely beach day was followed by an evening tour by Tom and Sue of nearby Bayonne, the financial center of Bayonne/Anglet/Biarritz. What a cute town!! It has a beautiful 14th century ...

San Sebastian is a wicked old town, literally full of tapas restaurants, bars and little shops. Our hostel was right in the middle of it all, it was ridiculously loud at night, but nothing wine and ear plugs can't handle. They have all these tapas laid out on the bars and you pick the ones that look good.... sometimes ...

... in an upmarket French resort free from loud and leery karaoke bars and English pubs. We wanted a great holiday for less, without feeling that we were scrimping or missing out. <br><br><br><br>Biarritz, the famous Basque seaside town on the Atlantic coast, came out as the top choice. But could we afford it? Self-catering seemed the obvious solution. <br><br>We surfed the net ...

... a sleep in my HOTEL room pretty early. I was only spending one night there, as much as I loved the HOTEL, it was too expensive to hang out there for much more and I don´t know if I could do another day in the rain. The next day I was excited for, San Sebastian. People told me again, only go if it was sunny, not a lot to do if you can´t walk the city. They had the same forecast as Biarritz so I had my fingers crossed, I should have crossed the toes too, oops............

... and a small purple line in my bedside lamp) adding colour, and a gorgeous Pylones 'treasure chest' with a purple cat on it to keep my jewellery in. Tonight with be our fifth night here, and already it's starting to feel like a home... what more could a girl want? As far as the travel log goes, I left you in Marseille where I watched South Africa play Fiji in a nail-biting game of rugby on a gorgeous autumn day. That night, I boarded a night train to Bordeaux and the next ...

... passed on the chance of adding more stars to the trip. For anyone who's interested in Michelin stars but doesn't currently like the dollar-euro exchange rate, La Rotunde is an excellent place to go to get the Michelin star experience without le choque de sticker. I started with a Crème glacée de carottes as an appetizer. The main course was a Tranche du cochon lait, or a terrine of pork. It looked a bit strange but what quite good. To finish, a Gateau au chocolat-caramel ...