Weekend Trip (cont.)

Note to reader: I embellished just for fun on the last post. There was no chase scene, the guys in the car were policemen that were curious about me because I looked suspicious. 


I called the Australian guy at about 9, after a couple of hours of walking about the shore and the old part of the city. He was a friendly-ass guy that did ask where the shit I had been, because he was prepared to get up and let me in his house at 630. We stopped by the grocery store en route to his house, bought some cereal, and had breakfast before both crashing out for another 2 hours or so. In the afternoon we went to meet a friend of his at a cool restaurant, had some pinchos (typical bar delicacies of the region) and beer, and waited for the French folk to turn up. They arrived about 45 minutes later, and it was great to see Nathalie again after our fun couple of days together in Mexico. Her b/f  was really cool, and the whole group of them were surfers and had a really good vibe. We continued to eat and chat for the rest of the afternoon and hopped in the car to cross the border to Biarritz, France.

The Basque Country is really quite unique and beautiful. The aussie, Clint, was really almost pro-separatist and schooled me on why he thought they should just be recognized as their own country. The language, Euskera, was quite strange and not related to spanish in anyway.

France was great. Nick and Nath live in the top floor of a classic French apartment building whose shutters look over the other orange shingled roofs to the Bay of Biscay with its backdrop of the Pyrenees mountains in the distance. We went to a free concert that night in the renovated stables of an old castle and I enjoyed being surrounded by all of the Frenchies that I couldn't understand. The next day, we explored the city a bit, saw the lighthouse, had fresh oysters and white wine, and hit some golf balls on a course with a view of the setting sun behind the mountains and ocean. Totally picturesque, but I didn't bring a camera. We had a dinner party that night and had cheese and grilled meats and potatoes and wine. Bomb diggity. Then we watched IT. Interesting way to end the night. A great weekend overall, and I look forward to hopefully returning in the spring or summer to check out the surf scene.