Bayonne in the Basque Country, Episode 47

Join Us in France Travel Podcast

Annie Sargent

History, Art, Lifestyle, Travel, Paris, Places & Travel, Culture, Tour, Language, Monuments, Society & Culture, Visit, France

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2014

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Today we take you to Bayonne France in the Basque Country. Bayonne is a place of notable character, culture, history, and it has so much to offer to today’s visitor too! Both Elyse and I love the place and we tell you why.

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0:00.0	This is a professional tour guide in France episode 47.
0:04.0	Hello, I'm Annie and I'm Elise and we welcome you to the join us in France travel
0:08.7	podcast.
0:09.7	Elise is a professional tour guide, art historian, and a really good storyteller.
0:15.0	And I haven't run out of words yet.
0:17.6	You never will.
0:20.6	On today's show, Elise takes us on a tour of Bayhonda, the lovely city in the southwest of France in the Basque country.
0:29.0	It's an exotic place with exotic words such as Pincho which means spike and well that's
0:40.3	the vast language right that's the vast language I right? That's the best language. I think.
0:43.3	Not that I'm a.
0:44.8	There are two languages actually.
0:46.1	Yeah.
0:46.5	Well, just talk, I feel better because it's really an area
0:48.4	where you do have two languages, one of which is of course still in use, and that is the Basque language.
0:55.0	And the other, which is related, but it's not quite the same, and it was interesting what the research was about.
1:01.0	It's the Gascon.
1:02.0	Which is similar. Yeah, right. what the research was about it's the gascong a ha so you have both there yeah right so
1:05.2	another exotic word is a uskadi yeah which means which means which means
1:10.4	Basque country that's's right. It's their thing.
1:13.4	Uskadi. And they also love to use that really funky looking font.
1:18.5	I'll put some examples on the website so you can see it.
1:22.7	Yeah, when you arrive into Bas country.
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