Saint-Jean-de-Luz
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Oct 1, 2026
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Once again, the centrality of the religious issue in the build-up to, as well as the waging of the Spanish Civil War, was unmistakably demonstrated.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Just across the French border in the Pyrenees, Prince Javier, Javier of Bourbon-Parma, now the designated heir of the childless Alfonso Carlos, to whom the religious issue was central also, had taken up residence in the little town of Saint, Saint-Jean-de-Luz during Holy Week.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Every few days, he conferred with Valcande or the Carlos military leaders in Nevada.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The Carlos continued to operate independently of the regular army generals, except for Varela, who was imprisoned in Cadiz during April, and Sanjurjo, exiled in Portugal.
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Pete QuiñonesHOST
This report contained in the Spanish government's official history of the Civil War, but not attested elsewhere, is open to grave doubt, for it was very much in the interest of the Franco government after the Civil War to deny any commitment had ever been made to the Carlists, who had no significant role in that government, especially since Sanjuro and Mola, who might have set the record straight, were by then both dead.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
On the face of it, the letter is genuine, and Lazarza, who received it personally from Sanjuro, always insisted that it was.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
On that same day, apparently without yet knowing the contents of Sanjuro's letter, Baleztena, Burasain, and two other Navarrese Carlists, leaders went to Saint-Jean-de-Luz to confer with Javier, telling him that Mola had agreed to allow the Requete to use the red and gold flag and the Carlists to administer Nevada after the rising.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Javier said this was not good enough and he would have to contact Alfonso Carlos in Vienna before accepting these minor concessions as sufficient to justify full Carlos support of the rising.
David EyreGUEST
Of course, the Transpyrenees race is known for a series of repeating places and landmarks that our riders often pass through.
David EyreGUEST
The start and finish line has been in both Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Girona more than once.
David EyreGUEST
There's the cols of the Raid Parcours by the Tourmalet, Aubisque, and Peyres.
David EyreGUEST
And then there is the rider magnet that is the McDonald's in the French town of Tarascon.
Andrew PryorHOST
His first placement was at the Hotel de Gaulle at Etretat in Normandy.
Andrew PryorHOST
He also worked at Saint-Jean-de-Luz in the Basque Country.
Andrew PryorHOST
Jean's early placements took him elsewhere, but they came back together at Lucas Carton, the celebrated restaurant on the Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, where they both worked under the chef Gaston Richard, and where they formed the friendship that would shape the rest of their careers.
Andrew PryorHOST
The friend they made at Lucas Carlton was Paul Bacuse.
Fergal O'KeeffeGUEST
But what I loved about it when I was staying there was, one, it, it was just relaxed and felt real authentic Basque, but you were near everywhere.
Fergal O'KeeffeGUEST
So you were literally just 15-minute drive into Biarritz, uh, you know, uh, one way, and then the other way, 15 minutes drive to Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
Fergal O'KeeffeGUEST
And Saint-Jean-de-Luz is this, you know, old port town.
Fergal O'KeeffeGUEST
It used to be, I think pirates used to go from there back in the day, and then it was a, a whaling p- little fishing village, but now it's, you know, very much...
Fergal O'KeeffeGUEST
It's still a fishing village, you see the old fishing boats, but it's the most gorgeous, um, old tourist town now, I would say, with this lovely covey beach with, with kind of walls, you know, like harbor walls around it to protect the beach.
Fergal O'KeeffeGUEST
And actually, I, I'd recommend that for families, Saint-Jean-de-Luz or, because, you know, actually along the coast it can get quite, um, because of the surfing, you know, and the sea, the Atlantic Ocean, it can get rough enough and the, you know, people have...
Fergal O'KeeffeGUEST
Like, there's rip currents and things like that, so you do have to be careful around the sea, but that place, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, would be great for younger families.
Fergal O'KeeffeGUEST
But a really gorgeous town with, like, gorgeous narrow streets full of shops, very vibrant, like, you know, busy, full of, um, restaurants.
Matthew JonesGUEST
So we did Porto and then Bilbao.
Matthew JonesGUEST
then up to Bordeaux and then back down to Saint-Jean-de-Luz and then right the way back round to Southampton.
Matthew JonesGUEST
So one sea day at the end and the rest, one port every day.
Matthew JonesGUEST
I would say some of those are a little bit further out of town, like Porto.
Matthew JonesGUEST
But maybe that's to do with being new.
Matthew JonesGUEST
I honestly don't know.
Matthew JonesGUEST
And then one tender port, which was Saint-Jean-de-Luz, which is this wonderful Basque seaside town, like pretty much bang on the border with France and Spain.
Matthew JonesGUEST
And that was fantastic.