Valencia spain night time donkey ride full#
Keep reading for my full travel tips, and a few notes on enjoying the local culture, architecture and food.
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In what follows, I mostly concentrate on Hendaye, since this is a site about France.īut you’ll also find a quick look at what lies just beyond the border in a Spanish Basque town whose architecture, cuisine and medieval walled city are genuinely alluring and interesting. Image credit: OpenStreet Map contributorsīoth rather quiet, humble towns– at least when compared to the glamorous surfing hub of Biarritz and the much-fussed-about art and restaurant scene of Bilbao- Hendaye and Hondarribia have much to offer travellers looking for something a bit off the tired tourist path. You can easily travel from one to the other on an inexpensive ferry that takes about 15 minutes, crossing the calm waters of the Bidassoa estuary and Txingudi Bay. Hendaye and Hondarribia are situated at the very edges of the French and Spanish borders, respectively, with the former located at the southwestern tip of France.
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Rather than head to more famous destinations such as Biarritz, Bayonne, San Sebastien or Bilbao, we were intrigued by two border towns that have a quieter presence. My partner and I had never been to the region before, and we decided to spend two days on the Atlantic coast, hopping between France and Spain. On a recent visit to Hendaye, a coastal town in France that’s right over the border from Spanish Basque country, I discovered just how rich and complex the area is– and how much it has to offer. Straddling France and Spain, the area is in fact an aggregation of several distinctive regions and cultural identities. Basque country is one of those fascinating “liminal” spaces that crosses cultural and linguistic borders.