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In Search of Andraka in Spain’s Beautiful Basque Country
More Details: In Search of Andraka in Spain’s Beautiful Basque CountryOne of the reasons for my recent trip to Spain, as I shared in an earlier post, was to see the ancestral lands of my Mom’s family in the Basque region of Spain (Euskal Herria in Basque). My Mom’s last name (Andraca, in Spanish) is the name of a home that existed a long time…
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Biarritz: The Pearl of France’s Basque Country
More Details: Biarritz: The Pearl of France’s Basque CountryThere are places that are semi-legendary in your mind. And when you visit them, they live up to that vision. And sometimes they don’t. Biarritz, France is not a place I knew a lot about but I did have an impression that it was a beach playground for the rich and famous in France’s Atlantic…