We went to Bayonne this morning and explored the Cathedral,
the Museum of Basque culture and History of Bayonne, the church of St André and
had a little lunch at a café called Bar Rémy. We also saw the oldest Trinquet
in Bayonne. A Trinquet is a pelote
court, and pelote is a traiditonal Basque game played a ball and a strange sort
of bat that attaches to the hand with a sewn-on glove.
We went on to Biarritz later in the afternoon where we had a
general explore and went to the Russian Orthodox Church and the Chapel
Impériale (which was sadly closed). We
walked along the coast to the Rocher de Sainte Vierge from where there is a
nice view of the main Biarritiz beach to the North and the Spanish coast to the
South.
We had dinner at a restaurant called
Le Corsair at the little marina at Biarritz – we both had lovely salmon
rillettes followed by delicious dorade (bream) with roasted peppers and
almonds.
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