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Pau, south-west France: new discoveries

I wrote a couple of posts about Pau after our visit in October 2016.  Click here for a walk around Pau and here for some tips for families.  The link for the tourist office is here.  Now I’ve found more experiences to add, based on our visit a year later.  Walking around the town brings…

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Biarritz: another day of autumn sun

A year ago I wrote a longer post about a sunny October day my daughter and I spent in Biarritz, an elegant seaside resort with popular surfing beaches.  To read the post click here.  Well, we were excited to go there again this half term and carry on where we left off.  The sun was…

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Find your feet: the high ropes and the barefoot trail

The Forêt des Vert-tiges is a fantastic tree top rope course on the northern outskirts of Pau, south west France.  We spent October half-term this year in Pau with our friend Jacqueline.  What a great play on words: Forêt des Vert-tiges.  Yes, it really is a forest of both vertigo and green branches.  It’s described…

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A walk around Pau, south-west France

Pau: “Porte des Pyrenees” The French town of Pau has a prime position just to the north of the Pyrenees, 50 km from Spain and 100 km from the Atlantic coast (Biarritz and St Jean de Luz).  The Catholic pilgrimage town of Lourdes is only 30 km away.  Pau is the capital of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques…

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The Pyrenean Wildlife Park – Parc Animalier des Pyrénées

The Parc Animalier is one of the top wildlife parks in France, and we were fortunate to have a sunny day trip there with our friend Jacqueline during our visit to Pau in October half term 2016.  It’s in the foothills of the Pyrenees, about 10 minutes’ drive south from Lourdes, at a village called Argelès-Gazost…

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Biarritz beach

Autumn sun in Biarritz

At October half-term we spent some happy days with our friend Jacqueline in the town of Pau, southwest France, a lovely area worthy of a lot of blogposts.  It’s a cold and murky day in London so I’ve decided to start with a post about our sunny day in the seaside resort of Biarritz.  There aren’t any…

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French chocolate nuns: how to make them at home

  My introduction to French chocolate nuns Pau is a lovely town at the foot of the Pyrenees in southwest France.  Years ago, as a student of French and German, I spent several months at the university there as part of my degree course.  There was a lot to explore in the area, and that…

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