Michael...heading to Carcassonne

I may be back in the great Ausland again but I  am determined to complete my French travel journey here....and laboriously transfer my journal to blog!

from Biarritz we headed just down the road to St Jean de Luz. We decided to take a little detour and head over the Spanish border to San Sebastian first. It is an amazingly beautiful bay but is too much of a big city for me!
Finally heading back to st Jean de Luz I was surprised to find our hotel easily!! Certainly it was a rather hair raising assent and Bev gets the passenger yellow jersey for directions under duress!! The the parking, a neat 30 point turn between 2 cars, a wall and the hotel! This was accompanied by the lady from the hotel giving Bev a shoulder massage to relieve stress and me inhaling sufficiently to get out of the car! What a view! A Beautiful bay stretching to the horizon and wrapping itself around the marina, all beneath the foothills of the Pyrenees. The hotel stands high on a hill overlooking all of this! Not a lot of English folk here and pretty much no english spoken but folk are still very helpful!!
On day two we walked and walked and walked along the coast to a sea wall and castle. Well worth the walk and on the way home we were entertained by tight rope walkers over a small bay...walking cliff to cliff.

We spent the morning before heading to Carcasonne doing a look-see drive of the coast stretching from Hossegor to the Spanish border. What an amazing set up of reef and beach breaks!! From the scenic Biarritz long board wave to the giant soft waves of Guethary. I'd live here in a heart beat, just have to learn French! When there is no surf there is inspiration on many levels everywhere. Also you get to hang with crazy basques!!
Driving to Carcasonne went well except for our now usual drive off the motorway, endangering of our lives and the creep back on to the motorway!! Carcasonne walled city is a marvel of history, but the modern city is disappointing. Grey and personality-less.
We were up at five am the next day for a hectic drive to Nice to catch the ferry to Corsica!