Premiere Classe 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.

           

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 ...

... we tried to get a lesson from our hostel but they said the instructor wasn´t available. I think he was hungover because I saw him moping around the hostel. We rented boards and head out to Playa Zuricola, tons of surfers were out and the waves look meanacing. Thank god the dude renting the boards told us where the ...

... with extraordinary chocolate treats.

Window shopping
As you'd expect of such a surftastic town, there are plenty of shops selling famous brand surf boards and the coolest beachwear to match. We were a lot more interested in designer wear of the less salty kind. Hermes, in particular. The brand famous for its signature silk scarves has a suitably sumptuous store here ...

... a childhood rhyme to sum up our evening.... We saw London....We saw France......then we saw a French man in his underpants... I am afraid that is not a typo. We went down to the bar in our hostel to check out this French punk band and to our surprise there was a very intoxicated man dancing and rocking out to the band. His rocking out resulted in him having the urge ...

... for most of the two days we were there. Kristy tried to find some skirts that had a Basque / Spanish flavour to it. But all the shops in town too formal for Kristy´s style. Okay okay truth be told she spent a bit of time and money working on the London and Paris blogs haha. We wanted to sample a bit of French Bastille celebration and we choose to do it in Biarritz rather than Paris which ...

... some Morrocan guy with the worst BO I've ever smelled ever. As we walked home that night, Kathryn and I both agree that we wouldn't go out the next evening because really, nothing could top The Playboy and our fabulous gay Frenchmen. We spent the morning sleeping in and the afternoon lying on the beach (tough life eh?) and then we set up shop at the little restaurant situated in this little cave-ish inlet hallowed out of one of the cliffs overlooking the water to ...