Le Relais du Lac Hossegor

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 ...

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 ...

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!!

   

Sue and Judy took some time to visit St. Jean de Luz, a cute fishing village during the day. Later that night we celebrated Farmor's birthday a few days early, as she was to be flying to San Francisco on her actual birthday. After a delicious meal "catered" by Picard - a french pre ...

Sue and Judy took the bikes and toured "downtown" Biarritz, which is a lovely 30 minute bike ride away. Later that afternoon, we joined most of town at the beach for another idillac beach session. Evie wore her mini-wetsuit for the first time since we bought it 6 months ago. It is too small already!!!

After Evie gave it a go ...

... and looked to be struggling a bit. I paddled over to him and grabbed him by the collar and dragged him ashore. Once back on firm ground he seemed relieved and thankful for the help. No worries mate! Funny thing was, less than 10 minutes later he was back out there, but this time had gone up the beach further to avoid the rip and had made it out the back to the outer sandbank and was trying to catch waves. Seriously, he was paddling to ...

in brief: I took a few days to check out Hossegor and Capbreton. As I was getting off the bus with my pack and boardbag, this guy asked if I was camping. "yep." Then he convinced me to go to Seignosse since there´s no camping in Hossegor. (I had heard that but was going to check it out anyways). So I got back on the bus, and we started talking. Basically, I stayed ...