Gora Euskal Herria

Over the hills and far away, we crossed into the Basque Country - lush and green and hilly and like a whole other world again.

It was a day of scenery changes. From departing the French countryside, driving past huge Atlantic pine plantations on the way to the coast, stopping for a walk up the sand dune, back through highways and cities and ports (Bayonne) along the coast and back inland and up and over past the Spanish border we arrived at a campsite. Empty aside from us and one other van who pulled in later... ideal! And amidst the Pyrenees, who could ask for more? Ok, maybe a couple of cervezas watching the sun disappear behind the mountain. Check👌🏼🍻

The only sounds, that of the birds, the wind rustling the leaves on the Oak trees and the rusty bells on the sheep grazing in the fields around.

Feeling a touch of Irish in this landscape too...Read more