The Compleat Anglo in the Pays Basque

France's best-kept secret

Showing posts with label plancha. Show all posts

Showing posts with label plancha. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 May 2017

242. The swallows are back..

27th May. While Madame was out at the market buying some sardines (among other things) this morning, I was heaving our trusty plancha ( rig...

Friday, 25 May 2012

187. Bayonne and the plancha both sizzle..

25th May 2012 . Summer's here! Yee-haar! Forecast is for ~28° today. Shorts and t-shirt weather. Other signs of summer? Bayonne'...

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

159. From the Pays Basque to the high Pyrenees

2nd August 2011 . Arrived back home yesterday after a long weekend (Fri-Mon) up in the high Pyrenees to the south east of the Pays Basque...

Friday, 25 March 2011

133. Plancha time again!

26th March 2011 . Watching the news over the last few days reminded me of my previous life. When long-simmering tensions in the Balkans fin...

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

108. Espadrilles

18th January 2011. At the end of yesterday afternoon, it was still bright and sunny so we went down to the beach at Anglet. Walking from ...

Saturday, 17 April 2010

57. It's plancha time again! Ouch!

15th April 2010. It's at this time of the year that I start thinking about lugging the plancha out of the garage, heaving it up the s...

Thursday, 4 February 2010

43. Junk that BBQ! Vive la plancha!

4th February 2010. One of the best things we bought since arriving down here is a " plancha" .. Stunned silence in the snug.....

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Pipérade: Bayonne, France; Madame and I experienced a 'coup de foudre' the first time we visited the Pays Basque (aka the French Basque Country) together - so much so that we started planning our next holiday there as we were driving away. After a few more visits, we concluded that this was where we were going to live one day, once the necessity of having to earn a living was a thing of the past. In mid-2007, we sold up in the UK and we finally realised our long-held dream to move to here. It's everything we ever hoped it would be and it's probably the best decision we've ever made - we've absolutely no regrets. As I can't see myself ever returning to England, I thought I should become part of society here (eg, the right to vote in local and national elections) and so I applied for French citizenship around 2018. I was delighted to receive it a couple of years later as it meant I was no longer a 'bird of passage' and my position here was secure.

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