{"id":3313,"date":"2023-10-07T09:03:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T13:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2023-10-07T09:30:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T13:30:06","slug":"basque-country-day-12-september-16-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=3313","title":{"rendered":"Basque Country, Day 12 \u2014 September 16, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our next destination after our tour was Cap Ferret, \u00a0near Bordeaux, to see our friends Jos\u00e9-Maria and Agn\u00e8s. There is no direct flight from Bilbao to Bordeaux, so we had to fly to Madrid first. We were leaving before breakfast, so our hotel provided us with a “picnic” to take with us. In our brown paper bags, we found a banana, an apple, a bikini (that’s what the locals call a ham and cheese sandwich), a croissant, and bottles of water and peach juice. At the airport we put our luggage on the conveyor belt and ate some of our portable breakfast.<\/p>\n

We had to walk the entire length of the Madrid airport to get to our gate. The \u00a0flight from Bilbao to Madrid took seventy minutes, and from Madrid to Bordeaux, fifty minutes. Jos\u00e9-Maria greeted us warmly at the airport. He and Nick determined that they met forty-eight years ago when they both worked for National CSS. Jos\u00e9-Maria drove us to his summer home in Cap Ferret, where Agn\u00e8s was waiting for us.<\/p>\n

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The view from the back door<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was so wonderful for the four us to be together again. We did lots of catching up on what has been happening with our families since we saw each other last. We learned that their summer house originally belonged to Jos\u00e9-Maria’s grandfather many years ago when the town was a fishing village. There have been several additions to the house since then.<\/p>\n

Cap Ferret is on a peninsula in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, \u00a0with the Bay of Arachon on its east and the Atlantic Ocean on its west. It has wonderful beaches that are ideal for swimming, surfing, and other water sports. \u00a0It was a fabulous place for us to relax after keeping such an active schedule \u00a0during our tour.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Agn\u00e8s \u00a0had prepared a large salad with fresh tomatoes for our lunch. She \u00a0made sea bream and potatoes for dinner, which we all enjoyed.<\/p>\n

10, 536 steps<\/p>\n

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Our next destination after our tour was Cap Ferret, \u00a0near Bordeaux, to see our friends Jos\u00e9-Maria and Agn\u00e8s. There is no direct flight from Bilbao to Bordeaux, so we had to fly to Madrid first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,23,24,15],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basque-country-2023","tag-basque","tag-france","tag-spain","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3368,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions\/3368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}