{"id":2868,"date":"2014-02-28T22:09:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T22:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2017-07-04T13:18:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T13:18:11","slug":"friday-28th-february-2014-ive-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=2868","title":{"rendered":"Friday 28th February 2014 – I’VE ARRIVED …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… at my destination for this weekend. I’m in Hendaye, which is at the extreme south-east of France and just across the river is the Basque coast of Northern Spain. And here I’ll be until Sunday night.<\/p>\n

\"hotel<\/a>This was my hotel from last night – the Hotel Belle Vue. I was in the annexe in the foreground – that’s where the cheaper rooms are and, of course, I’m on the budget plan. But nevertheless, I’m not faulting for a minute the value for money. I was quite happy with this.<\/p>\n

No complaints about the breakfast either, and with the kettle in the room I was even able to make a flask of coffee.<\/p>\n

\"french<\/a>While I was on my travels last night, prowling around the town, I came across this sign. I had to return to photograph it this morning before I left.<\/p>\n

If it shows anything at all, it shows that money spent on a good native-speaking translator is never wasted, no matter how good you think that your on translation might be. Although, I must admit that if the boot were on the other foot I would be happy with a sign like this.<\/p>\n

I was in Hossegor later this morning to carry out an errand. My friend Marianne wrote a book on Pionsat and this was illustrated with photos from a bygone age. <\/p>\n

\"leclerc<\/a>
\nOne photo shows a man leaving the Pionsat Post Office and someone who saw the photo said “that’s Richardy, a garage proprietor from Hossegor who had a summer home in Pionsat”. <\/p>\n

It was always on Marianne’s list to go to Hossegor and see if she could find the garage but seeing as how I was in the area I went instead. And after multiple enquiries at the Town Hall, the Police Station, the Tourist Information and the Pensioners’ Club, people think that this supermarket might have been it.<\/p>\n

It’ll be confirmed for me on Monday.<\/p>\n

\"arklow<\/a>
\nFrom there, I followed the coast down to Hendaye and the weather deteriorated as I drove south. Sitting having my lunch at the port of Bayonne watching the Arklow Fortune<\/em>, newly arrived from Ijmuiden, something of a storm had sprung up.<\/p>\n

The Arklow Fortune<\/em> is a rare breed of vessel by the way – she’s a freighter flying the Irish flag so it seems, and that’s not something that you see every day.<\/p>\n

\"storms<\/a>By the time I reached St Jean de Luz near Biarritz, the weather had turned decidedly nasty as you can see. I don’t think that I’ve ever seen it as bad as this. Violent was not the word.<\/p>\n

Here in Hendaye, the seafront is closed off as they are expecting the weather to deteriorate further over the weekend with a climax on Monday evening.<\/p>\n

But I have a hotel 10 minutes from the seafront overlooking the river that separates Hendaye from Spain. It’s basic and in the throes of being renovated, but they’ve done me a good deal on the price of a room and including breakfast, even if there is no heating yet and the room needs finishing. As I said, I’m on the budget package.<\/p>\n

So after my excellent vegetable risotto, I’m off to bed for an early night.<\/p>\n

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