Le Voilier Capbreton

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 ...

... 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 ...

... out that there are many people in France who hike from hut to hut (as we call it in the White Mountains) or, Gite to Gite in French, with nothing more than a daypack. Since we were attempting to hike as much as possible on the HRP, (which actually follows the GR10 for the first few days), this was a little too touristy for us, as the trail went into and through a town almost every day. But the Basque people were great. Each town had a court similar to handball ...

... at a forest picnic table, the day felt great. The sun was hot, and the air salty and full of pine oxygen. And the sand dune. On the Dune de Pyla, I played a game where I rolled a tennis ball ahead of me down the dune then raced after to stop it from reaching the forest. "The Infamous Amphibious Tennis Ball Game - Sand Dune Style," itīs called. I had one really good one. I sprinted downhill and pounced at the zooming ball. But, I missed it. The ball was then way ...