My France is a sliver of it. The Atlantic southwest, where the country stops being Paris and starts being surfboards, oysters and long lunches. Bordeaux, Hossegor, Arcachon and the Basque coast, where the waves roll in and nobody’s in a hurry. I’m not the person to tell you about the Louvre; I’m the one who’ll tell you where to eat after a morning in the water and which slow Saturday is worth building a whole trip around. Honest, first-person, and made to pair with the Spanish Basque Country just over the border.
I am going to the Espelette pepper festival this year, and I have not been this excited about a village party in a long time. The Espelette pepper festival 2026 happens half an hour from my front door: two days, one small Basque village, around 20,000 people and house fronts hung with drying red peppers […]
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If you think the Basque Country is only surfing and pintxos (the local tapas), then… well, there actually is quite a lot of surfing and pintxos. But Biarritz is more than that. It is where the Atlantic waves meet French elegance and Basque temperament. And a spring Saturday here? It is simply perfect. I got
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