Trip To A Medieval Town

Today we took a 40 min bus ride to Bayonne, 8km, but a world away from Barritz. Via a pit stop in Decathlon along the way for an extra pair of hiking socks and a head torch, just in case!

Biarritz in it's current form is around 250 years old, Bayonne is around 900 years old, so hugely different architecture. A very late breakfast, including beer, sangria, and a board full of meat was followed by several hours wandering the medieval streets and visiting castles, cathedrals and the odd souvenir shop.

After a recovery nap in the late afternoon, it was out for a happy hour drink and then onto the The Newquay pub for the England game. Where we came across two heavily tattooed blokes with their tops off for some sort of photo shoot, totally random.

However, regarding the football, there was one issue, Holland were playing Germany tonight and that was the only game they could show. A guy, Max, on the table next to us went back to his hotel to get his tablet for us all to watch the England game. We were joined by a couple from Bournemouth, Caroline and Russ who were proper party people and all of a sudden a couple of quiet drinks watching the football turned into beers, shots and what have we got ourselves into.Read more