Hotel Mercedes Hossegor

... 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 ...

... someone didn't have the map open most of the time, Amanda. In frustration we got to an intersection and I said "left or right?", "Left" came the reply. So I turned right and we were home in 2 minutes flat. Nothing like driving for 45 minutes to buy an empty lighter for 5 bucks. The next morning we woke to a thick fog making it hard to see what the waves were like, I could barely make a couple of surfers already in the water, but it looked OK. So I raced back to ...

... I had no clue how I was supposed to drive. Nothing like it! Well, we drove down to Spain that day...The waves in France were not looking any good, so why not. On the Basque coast we diod not understand anything, since it's not really spanish, but looks more like greek...And we could not find any open shops, they seemed to have siesta everytime we were not. We had a really nice time though, and stayed two night. I will write more details later since this is the only internet ...