Basque Bylines: returns to St Jean de Luz

Friday, 10 July 2009

returns to St Jean de Luz

A happy day in St Jean de Luz. Today I get my wife back. She has been held hostage by Willy Wonka for the last three weeks. He kidnapped her from a shoe shop in London. He has agreed an exchange in return for a gateau Basque recipe (I made one up) and promised that she will return with plentiful supplies of cocoa products.

Basque of the day:- chocolate :: txokolate

Basque Bylines

Traversing the planet is always good for the soul but so is returning home. Following ten months in Outer Mongolia a Scotsman and his wife return from the Steppe. Back in St Jean de Luz the sun still sits high in the sky, Gateau Basque remains as tempting as ever and life in the Basque Country moves forever onwards at its own luxurious pace. Having answered one important question, one remains:

What makes gateau Basque taste so good?

[What made Chinggis Khaan so darned angry? Nothing rhymed with his name which as a budding poet grated heavily and have you ever tried to run the world's greatest ever empire from a ger on the remote Steppe surrounded by camels at -40C?]

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