The Cool Kids

After reading my blog for a bit did you ever catch the draft that 'the French are...' I know it's terrible comparing cultures and the like but I know one thing I've never said about 'the french' is how cool and laid back they are in fact just the opposite usually.  Well today I've got news for you.  Do you wanna know where the cool kids are at?  The south west corner of France baby.  

So the coolest kids on the block are those from le Gers seriously check it out its beautiful, but I recently took a trip to another little region and hope to return to an area that isn't quite French and isn't quite Spanish in fact it's quite...Basque.  This region divided between Spain and France speaking their own language (not related to any language in Europe) and being all cool and the like.  You like good food?  San Sebastián has more michelin stared restaurants than anywhere else in the world, or maybe you like something cheap healthy and yummy well the basque have been doing tapas before Barcelona thought it was cool.

I just really feel like some spicy food but I'm in France what do I do?  Go to espelette, they dry hot peppers on their houses.  Wanna get some fresh air?  Well just go on a hike in the mountains and visit some wild horses and take a train that's been running since 1900.  Mountains not your thing well how about surfing?  Yep that's right surfing, Biarittz is well known as the surfing capital of Europe with beautiful beaches as well.  

Surfing, eating, outdoors going, beach bumming, spicy, singing, proud but laid back people in this corner of France.  There's a lot of history and food and culture to discover here and this is my saying you might wanna check it out.  You ain't in Lille no more, not that there is anything wrong with Lille (❤️Lille) but I'm telling you the southwest has it all in France just like Belmondo says in 'Breathless' "si vous n'aimez pas les villes... Si vous n'aimez pas la mer...si vous n'aimez pas les mountagnes...va vous faire foutre" pardon his french...






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