Les Helianthes 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 ...

... 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 ...

... times she had trying to get through the fog along the border. She needed her ice ax (which we didn't carry) and highly recommended we stay on the Spanish side for a few days. Two days later, we had the steepest descent I've ever done; it was a 1600 meter (5,000 ft) descent in one and a half kilometers (one mile) of trail!! About three quarters of the way through the hike we finally hit some level ridgeline walking above tree line (more like what we had originally ...

... and skimming hedges as well. We did venture from our campsite in different directions each day. We lunched in Hossegor at the Rock Food Café on the beachfront during a particularly thick fog. Middle of the day, warm and sunny in the main part of town 500 metres back from the beach, but on the beach itself thick fog, and cool. After lunch we played Frisbee. We had to do something, we're all getting really fat!!! On our last night in Hossegor we were lashed by a ...