So East it's Ouest

Just got back from this winter wonderland.  As if I haven't explained already why the south west is prime location in France we will hang another little carrot our there. The Pyrenees, this fine mountain range between France and Spain that calls itself home to the country of the Andorra, fluffy dogs, sheeps milk cheese and some beautiful slopes also is known for several therapeutic mineral hot spring spas.  So once again recap.  Surfing, duck, wine, cheese, mountains, hot springs, warm weather...etc let's continue shall we.  Our little group headed out Thursday evening and ended up in Loudenvielle in the Louron valley the Pyrenees 3.5 hrs away.  We passed through Auch another cool south western city.  We settled into our little chalet shaped lodging up 5 flights of steps, I got top bunk of the bunk bed yeah and awoke to...rain.  It decided to rain on us but no matter we visited the village and when the sun decided to peek out while we were picnicking w...

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 basq...