Sunday, August 5, 2007

DIX: Fêtes de Bayonne



I wanted to see the french atlantic coast and decided to head west from AUCH via the RN. Big mistake! While I managed to get to Auch without problems, the route to PAU-DAX and Bayonne was more difficult and I had to get assistance from 2 Gendarmerie on bikes who were kind enough to escort me to the correct turn off and pointed me to Mont-de-Marsan which then led me to PAU and onto A63.

I arrived in Bayonne which was in a bit of a mess, with thousands of people dressed up in white and wearing red scarfs on their necks, drinking heavily and engaged in merry making. The streets reeked of stale urine as many of the participants needed to relief their bladders after all that partying. Even Sponge Bob was there.


See the link for live webcam of bayonne.
http://www.ville-bayonne.fr/index.php?id=130

Cheers
TO

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