Residence Maeva Le Sokoburu Hendaye

... 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.

             

... area was, much much better. We still sucked, really not as easy as we thought it would be, we tried for a good 3 hours, then bailed cause our arms we barely paddling at the end.

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... the Pyrenees along the French side to see a bit more of the mountains (at low level!) and spend a few more days in France which we were both enjoying to much end straight away. So the rough plan for now is to head towards north Portugal first through Spain then eventually we will get to Granada and head back north through Andorra and onto the French Mediterranean. After our mini scare we appropriately went to Lourdes, where a lady saw the virgin Mary in a vision ...

... a rather bad dinner at a brasserie across the road (microwaved croque monsieur.....yum). The waiting area is busy with French hikers returning from a weekend break and a portly, but friendly Uruguayan backpacker that keeps wandering around back and forth. Our train out is at 10:37, and then it's onward to Paris on an eight and a half hour trip. Looking forward to sleep; let's hope the night is restful enough.

... we uitvaren al snel windkracht 5 met uitschieters naar 6, maar zoals berekend, de stroom mee, en die loopt! Al snel hebben we op de teller 6.5 knopen staan en door de stroom tegen wind nogal steile golven. We reven zoveel mogelijk de genua weg en geven een flinke knik in het grootzeil. De boeien staan ver uit elkaar en daarom is het fijn om weer van de elektronisch kaart gebruik te kunnen maken. Al snel zien we het kleine eiland Ile d'Aix en houden die aan stuurboord voor ...

... Instead, we roamed around the streets dropping in on a few tapas bars. We started at Restaurant Bernado. The place was packed. They great standard tapas dishes: Serrano ham, anchovies, calamari, octopus. The sangria I ordered to accompany it was fantastic. It was sweet and refreshing to survive the warm muggy weather. Another place worth mentioning that was also packed with people is called ...