From Pau it's just over 100km to Bayonne, St. Jean de Luz, etc. Those are definitely worth visiting though probably a bit risky weather-wise at this time of year.

I'm guessing also Pau is a good place to fly if you're going to ski on the French Pyrenees (or hiking in the summer).

So, in what may be my last act of "advising", I'll advise you to cut the jargon. -- My old PhD advisor, to me, 26/2/11

Pau is nice but you could spend your life without visiting it and not feel the lack. The rest is as Mig says. At the moment it's rainy in that area (Pau to Biarritz), but on Friday-Saturday it'll be 24°, for example.

Must be one of the biggest towns in France I have no recollection of visiting. In fact, the whole area is a blind spot. I've become familiar with the Basque coast over the past couple of years, and French Catalonia and the Cathar country, but the middle bit... drive-through so far.

I was in Toulouse and Albi last week, lovely. Weather pretty decent, though a little bit cold for sleeping in the van.

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