Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Walking About Biarritz

Whitney took a morning run from their rented apartment in Anglet, while her family slept in, and met us at our hotel at 9 this morning, to go to the market Halle in Biarritz, just a block away.  Whitney picked up some apricots and a chocolatine plus a Basque tarte cerise. 

We walked down to the old fishing port, then along the boardwalk past Palais Hotel.  Whitney parted, to run back to Anglet.  Papa and I returned to the hotel for a bit of a break then went for lunch Cafe de Commerces, across the street from the market Halle.  After lunch we took a long walk to the Chapelle ImpĂ©riale, then circled back by the Palais Hotel and the boardwalk to our hotel.  Biarritz is full of beautiful architecture from the 1800 and 1900’s up until the art deco era, not so much the architecture from 1970-2000.  The 100-200 year old, beautiful, ornate architecture is really beautiful.  And the La Grande Plage is quite stunning, with rocks in the surf, a lighthouse at the end of the curving beach, and a hundreds year old fishing port at the other end.  We enjoyed our walk!