Hola everyone, now it's time to attempt some Spanish as we now embark on the Spanish leg of our trip. It began in a way that very much reminded us that we are back to being simple backpackers. After a lovely farewell lunch at Suzie and Marks it took us seven hours (thanks to a huge festival making the trains have unexpected detours) and 4 trains later to reach our first destination, the beautiful coastal city of San Sebastian. We arrived late and tired so decided...

Ok getting more up to date now folks. So after three days exploring Bordeaux it was time for some much needed r&r and let's face it a bit of mothering and some home cooked meals. So we headed to the countryside about an hour northeast of Bordeaux to a place called Chenaud, for five days to stay with Suzie and Mark, family friends of Ants. Our unusually different accommodation here was a large tent-like-bedroom situated in an old French barn dating back to ...

Bonjour followers! Today we jumped on the road fairly early (for us) as we had a few places to visit before we ended up in Bordeaux for our last night together as the TNA team :-( First stop were the dunes du pyla, the largest sand dunes in Europe, they stretch for 3kms! After a brief lapse back into childhood with lots of diving and rolling and filling our clothes with sand and Nat pulling her pants down to empty them right in front of a no-longer-innocent 8 ye...

Hi everyone, A nice short drive awaited us today as we headed west to the coast of France to Biarritz for a beach day. After picking up some essentials such as beer and cider (no chilled drinks in supermarkets here so we tucked our booze under some frozen peas for 20 mins and boom budget traveler solution!) we parked the car and descended on the main beach at Biarritz. Unfortunately it was a bit of a cloudy day so only Ant made it into the atlantic when he thoug...

Hello from the hamledges! Our final day of south-France b&bs is upon us! On our way to our place near the south-west border of France/Spain we stopped in at a little city called Pau pronounced po like "eh oh po, eh oh tinkywinky"). The tourist office lady sent us out on a tour of the industrial area with her promise that a cool tour de France festival thingy was being held there. Instead we wandered aimlessly in the extreme heat and then got back in the car ...