Being welcomed by our hosts Bernard and Michele Droneau

What Friendship Force is all about: fun and new friendships!

Biarritz and Atlantic Ocean view
within steps of our host's home

French horse meat butcher at
the food mart in Bayonne

Two lost ambassadors (us) on
the streets of Bayonne

A Basque welcome

St-Jean-de-Luz harbor

Traditional (and yummy)
Basque cakes

French bread for the greatful peasants...

Basque paella to fill the stomachs
of those hungry hoards!

Bernard Droneau, Bernard Rolin,
and Scott Miller

Playing a mean game of petanque (similar to bocce ball)

And doing the "chicken dance" together (only in France it is
the "duck dance")

At a raucous/memorable clown party
-- Luree Miller and Bernard Droneau

The main event at the clown party
-- Frenchman Bernard
and San Franciscan Scott

Bread chef Suzy
from the Biarritz Club

More clowning around
-- Katharine Kleinke,
Karen Rice, and Biarritz friends

Road signs
-- in French and Basque

A colorful plaza sign

A stop in Espelette

Bernard Droneau in his famous role as Cyrano de Bergerac

Paying homage to
the local rugby team

The Biarritz club chorus
at our farewell party

And another fabulous exchange draws to a close