Monday August 25, 2014

I was hoping to sleep-in this morning, but I was awake at 7:00, I made a move around 7:15 and by the time I had my shower and back to the tent, the camp store was open and I went to get breakfast – fresh croissants with scrambled eggs, – scrambled eggs are very easy to make on our camp stove.

We had a slow start as we had decided to move our tent up the hill slightly where it might get more sun in the morning and had to wait for the German motorcyclists to leave.  It was very wet from the dew this morning.  We are a bit between the devil and the deep blue sea really.  We want to get going early, so that we can be finished before it gets too hot and be able to see things as we are cycling, but by leaving before the sun is really up and warm, the tent fly is still wet.

We made a list of things to do in Biarritz and things we needed to get – Spanish maps, and a few other bits and bobs.  There is a Decathalon (sports store) near here so we thought might make the trip out there.

This building (above) and the next hotel (below) are buildings very close to our campsite, we cannot afford to stay at them, but the campsite is located on prime real estate, above a beach area.

We took the bus into downtown Biarritz and had a good wander around.

Biarritz has some lovely architecture and interesting buildings, but also modern buildings mixed in with them.

Biarritz used to be a resort area for the rich and famous, it still has some very expensive hotels, but it is now very popular with the surfing crowd, although I didn’t see any big waves.

Ralf has to climb things.

We arrived back to the camp site at about 5:30, I did the washing and Ralf went to get some grocery shopping.  We had a late dinner, but that is o.k.

We are also going to \’plan\’ a route in Spain.  Instead of just following the coastline, we are going to research places we want to visit in Spain and Portugal and see if we can connect the dots.

The wi-fi here is not very good, I hope I will be able to get better connection near the reception as I cannot update the blog until I get better connection.