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Anyhow, fact is that there are some older buildings in town centre that give it some character. Nice strolling there, just avoid parking besides the Pelote court ´cause these balls are heavy and they sometimes fly over the wall.
I somehow like this town and I definitely like the beach. La Piste low tide tubes are still not my league, but give it a little bit of onshore and a mid tide and the place is fun to surf. To avoid the crowds just walk down the beach to the south. So this is an obligatory stop for us and we once again stayed here for a few days. And we once again stayed on the camping car parking in front of the dunes which was, like always in summer, full with fancy white large campers, inhabited by tourists from Germany, Spain and a few more European Countries. As always, most of them didn´t surf. Surfers usually have smaller vans or cars and definitely do not have their own toilets. Which is a key factor here, as the only toilet on the parking regularly breaks down under the onslaught of the daily beach goers (plus it has a tendency to flood the room at the wrong time). And for this non-service the parking fee is just too high.
Pilgrims: If you travel a little bit into the Basque Country, you´ll stumble upon a few nice historic towns, many of them important stages on the Way of St. James. Some of them are just overkilled with tourist shops, some of them are nice little towns with a relaxed atmosphere. All of them are busy with pilgrims in summer and always good for the odd coincidentally encounter with interesting people, making that several weeks long track along this historical pilgrim way all the way to Santiago de Compostela.
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