I've been a little slow on the blog posts lately not due to lack of time or internet access, but due to lack of content. The last few days have been fantastic, but they've been quite simple. Generally we wake up at around 10:00, dillydally for a while, play tennis for 2 hours or so starting at 12:00. Then go to the beach from 14:00 to 18:00. It's quite pleasant and highly relaxing. After spending our first day or two in the Biarritz area at okay, but not great, beaches we've finally found an awesome beach.
The 'new' beach. (Click on this picture)
Today the waves we're absolutely huge and it was actually a bit treacherous. To try and manage the force of the waves we bought some flippers and a children's boogie board while we were at a sports store getting our racquets strung. The flippers were effective. The boogie board however, snapped in two when Frankie was pile-driven into the sand by a large wave. Nonetheless, we both survived to see another day.
Life guards on high-alert today. It doesn't look like it but waves were 6-8 feet high and the rip current was nasty.
As I mentioned in my last post we anticipated playing in our next tournament tomorrow, as that's when the director predicted we would play when we signed up for the tournament. However, she called me today and told me we wouldn't be playing until Thursday. What happened is that they likely received less entries than they had anticipated which pushed the day we played further towards the end of the tournament. This is no problem for us as we've found a nice club we can train at for only 10 euros a hit and the beach seems to be calling again tomorrow.
We drove around for a while testing different beaches before we found the one pictured above. This one did not pass the test as you can probably tell my Frankie's body language. Cool picture though.
The only other thing to mention is we moved into our flat 2 days ago. It's in a great location, has everything we need, and is generally quite nice, but it is extremely, extremely small. On the internet it's advertised as 14 square meters, and I would be surprised if it was much larger than 14 square feet. Once you unfold the couch into the supposedly 'queen' bed you barely have move to room around the flat. It really doesn't matter too much as having a roof over our head and a semi-permanent residence is good enough for me. But certainly worth mentioning.
We reside in apartment 2 of Residence Alphonse XIII.
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