We took the train to Biarritz where we spent a week. Our apartment was large and comfortable. It was a five minute walk from the market, Les Halles, with market stalls that sold a wonderful array of locals cheeses, meats and vegetables. We were about ten minutes stroll from the beaches.

Biarritz started life as a tiny fishing village that is still there, but became a fashionable destination for wealthy-holiday makers in the nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries. Now it has an air of faded glory. But the beaches and cliffs are impressively beautiful.

We made a day trip north to Bayonne.  We stopped to buy baguettes in Bayonne, a busy but pleasant, market town and ate them sitting on a bench by the Nive river. They were the best baguettes we have ever eaten.

We continued cycling along the path by the Nive as far as Ustaritz. The weather was still hot but as it was flat and with unloaded bikes it was pleasant.