Destinations

A Valley in the Pays Basque | Fraser Harrison | France, Pays Basque, Biarritz

The house is surrounded by a meadow, which is being grazed by cows the colour of caramel. They are Aquitaines Blanches, big, docile creatures that can be found recumbent on the sides of narrow roads

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Too Much of a Good Thing? | Alf Alderson | France, Pays Basque, Biarritz

I've paid two visits to Pays Basque in the last couple of years, and each time I've been surprised at the way the area seems to have avoided the hurly-burly of the modern tourist trade

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Back to the Côte Basque | Francisca Kellett | France, Pays Basque, Biarritz

The Côte Basque, the craggy coast stretching south from Biarritz, has undergone something of a renaissance in recent years

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Biarritz | Francisca Kellett | France, Pays Basque, Biarritz

Biarritz remains the coast's largest and busiest resort, attracting a medley of trendy surfers, well-heeled French families and the odd celebrity.

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Beyond Biarritz | Francisca Kellett | France, Pays Basque, Biarritz

The town of Biarritz has long been a favourite playground for royals, and more recently, families and surfers. But head beyond the main centre and you'll be rewarded with a series of characterful villages and seaside towns.

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Pays Basque | Solange Hando | France, Pays Basque, Biarritz

On the road to Compostella, the quaint town of St Jean Pied de Port mirrors itself in the clear waters of the Nive, its pink granite houses watched by the church of ‘Our Lady at the End of the Bridge’

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Le Week-End Biarritz | Solange Hando | France, Pays Basque, Biarritz

From the gleaming lighthouse on St Martin’s Point to the romantic Virgin’s Rock and beyond, the bay unfolds like a dream, six kilometres of sandy beaches framed by lush cliffs

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Mountain Treasure | Alf Alderson | France, Pays Basque, St Engrace Valley

This is a part of the Pyrenees that sees few visitors despite its undoubted loveliness - and please don’t all rush there at once now I’ve said that

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Band on the Run | Alf Alderson | France, Pays Basque, Vitoria-Gasteiz

If you consider that surfers and musicians would probably make a strong showing in a millennium list of the ten most unreliable types of people in the world - well, it was never going to be an easy ride

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