Only a 50km drive from Bayonne see's you in Saint Jean Pied De Port and this is one of the most beautiful towns in the Basque Country I am told. The drive here feels like you could be in New Zealand its soo green so that means it rains heaps!! The road has many signs saying this is "Route de Fromage" - road of cheese - I need a break from cheese!!  In the 13th century the town served as a military, commercial and religious cross-roads, built on the strategi...

The Big tournament - 9 holes of Golf The Frogs V The Kiwi's what a great morning this was, T time 8am to avoid the crowds. Rod and I have never played golf together or even seen each other play so that seemed a bit weird to start with. Step up to the first T and whamo Great T shot so I was off yipeeee could have been embarrassing!! It was a scenic course, beautiful view of the Atlantic ocean and up towards Biarritz. The photo's tell the tale.   Kiwi...

Here we are in Bayonne and WOW love it, so different to anywhere else in France we have been. Bayonne is the capital of the Basque - a happy marriage of sea and mountains and is a compact area straddling the western Pyrenees on the Atlantic seaboard. There are 7 Basque provinces, 4 in Spain and 3 in France.Did you know that Bayonne is "The Town of Chocolate" - I knew there was a reason for me to come here!!!! Christopher Colombus was the first European to come ...

We said our goodbyes to David and Sundara and headed off from Ventenac to the Basque, 425km drive, we decided to go via the tolls and wow can you eat of the km's on these autoroutes, cruising along at 130km it wasn't long before we had cruised past Toulouse and was 1/2 way there. Pau was a stopping point to check out the city as we had been told it was really nice. Now before you all call it Pau it is pronounced PO and that's not poo either. Pau is ...

622km's cycled in 10 days - We made it Team ROD&JACQ - what an achievement. We talked about this in 2011, set the goal and now have achieved it. It was a tough days cycling, windy & hot. We had to cycle from our friends place in Ventenac to Narbonne, this was a fast right without all our stuff only 45 minutes - machines!! We hooked onto the Canal Robine in Narbonne which would take us all the way to the Med, we were really excited - the track was great an...