1) David Brown goes to Hondarribia every year and recommends it highly.
2) Near the border is the Chateau d'Abbadie which was built by a famous and wealthy astronomer.
If you are not into fancy food and fresh fish then Hondarribia is a total dump. The hotel was in a private villa and we had a nice breakfast served in the garden. On the other hand, the room was very hot & stuffy, the TV had only Spanish channels and the DVD player and the WiFi didn't work.
The Old Town used to be fortified - you can see some of the walls still - and it is tiny. At the top is the square with all the painted houses on one side. The other side looks kind of like a prison with lots of with lots of holes where it has been hit by bullets and canon-balls. In fact, it is a very posh hotel.
It took less than an hour to walk round the new and the old town so we took a ferry boat over to Hendaye it France. The trip only takes about 5-10 minutes! If anything, Hendaye was even more of a dump so we got the next ferry back.
Wednesday turned out to be very cloudy but the rain that was forecast didn't happen. We got out of Spain as fast as we could.
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