Weather: cooler than
UK but pretty sweaty Betty
St Jean Pied-de-Port
A short blog but a
happy one because we’ve settled into a very comfortable way of life in our
peaceful campsite just outside the town of St Jean Pied-de-Port in the Basque
region of France. The only real
excitement was when I thought my watch might have dropped into the load of
washing swirling round in the machine.
The good news when I found it was tinged with worry about early onset
dementia – I’d put it on the wrong wrist!
This is a really nice
and very French holiday destination.
There is loads going on in the area. Our first choice was between cow races on Monday night or
the national Basque choir on Tuesday.
Boringly we chose the choir as we were too lazy to cycle into town 2ce
on Monday. And it was in the
church where I finally found proper candles to light for Gary and Chris ;-)
Since then we’ve done
lots of walking and cycling and lazing around. Today was especially good as we started off with croissants
for pud at breakfast, then we’ve found an “English fruitcake” to add to our
lunch picnic, hard earned on a big walk today, and to top it all off we’ve
discovered that we can get chips at the little bar on site that will go very
nicely with the fish stew left over from yesterday. Mmmmmm.
We keep planning to
leave but something keeps coming to our attention. In the village at the start of today’s walk we spotted a
couple of wine tasteries and the campsite guy has arranged for us to go to one
tomorrow. Then we were planning to
leave Sunday but I saw a leaflet for the “38e Championnat de chiens de bergers”
alongside tastings and sale of local produce. So who knows where we’ll be next week, probably still here.
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