#Pays basque

[beautiful-basque-country]

Whenever I read about the current economic situation of Germany, I always think that had it been a Southern European country it would have been already forced to austerity, cutbacks, and draconian measures all while the rest of Europe publicly shake their heads at how bad German people were cause they insisted on living beyond their means.

[coto524]

so the biarritz rugby team is now sponsored by grindr and these are the new home/away kits. which i feel like people should see

(i have a Rugby Gay friend i of course sent this to immediately and he just sent me back a string of 😭 emojis because his first thought was to go to the club's website and. THESE ARE ALREADY ALL SOLD OUT)

[sir20]

Long exposure at night, Biarritz, by sir20

[retrogeographie]

Biarritz, résidence les Grands Horizons.

[thebusylilbee]

I just learned on reddit that apparently there's an expression in the basque language (spoken in the western Pyrénées that cover parts of France and Spain) that says "Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Hirur gezur horiek egiak balira !" which means :

"Liberté, égalité, fraternité. If only those three lies were true !"

[leparfumdesreves]

Hier, dernière soirée riche en calories à San Sebastián !

Une balade gustative dans les Bars qui ont chacun leurs propres spécialités de "Pintxos".

Les Pintxos sont au Pays Basque ce que les Tapas sont à l’Espagne.

Dans le centre historique de San Sebastián, on les trouve à tous les coins de rue !

[thibautfleuretonline]

Façades (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Espagne)

[utkhowaga]

Gaztelugatxe is about an hour’s drive from Bilbao, on the scenic route to Gernika along the Mar Cantábrico. It’s an islet connected to the mainland by a treacherous path (the staircases were a filming location for Game of Thrones), with a hermitage dedicated to Saint John the Baptist that dates from the 10th century (at least). Even the view is worth a look—and just getting to the lookout is a hike!

[ortodelmondo]

Gure Bazterrak © Anne Rearick

[canirando]

La Rhune, 64 // 6 ans, 2 mois

[historyguide]

Darío de Regoyos - Basque Celebration.

Explore our visual guides and documentaries about art & history.

[beautiful-basque-country]

You sound like you live the austerity measures yourself? Did they personally affected you?

Kaixo anon!

Of course they did, they literally changed the course of my life, and my fellow geriatric millennials'.

The big recession hit just when I finished uni. I was about to enter the labor market when it basically imploded. Everybody was unemployed and the list grew everyday. There were no jobs, and the ones who kept it had to worsen their conditions so no more workmates were fired.

I had my degree brand new and literally nowhere to go to get a job, not in my area of knowledge or in any other. All I had left were temporary jobs of one day or one week, and I was one of the lucky ones cause I lived with my parents and wasn't facing eviction for not having a job. Still, when the worst part of this eventually passed, there was a brand new generation of freshly baked graduates to get the jobs that started being available while there were my elder millennials and I with a shameful CV full of temporary jobs nobody was really interested in. Or, the ones that kept studying, a shameful CV full of certificates and a problematic lack of experience to compete with younger, also well-certified people.

Those years were a fucking nightmare: people evicted by the hundreds, people that could have survived in any other time died due to healthcare cutbacks, lots of households were freezing in the winter because there was no money to pay the electricity or the gas bill? And what did Northern / Central Europe do? Ask for more misery-inducing measures while the PEOPLE there were shaking their heads saying we had it coming and that all of us very much deserved that situation.

[simrockfelin]

Col d'Ibardin, Pays Basque

[sir20]

Human vs Nature, Biarritz by sir20

[fidjiefidjie]

"Certaines personnes voyagent pour surfer 🏄‍♂️ , mais souvent j'ai l'impression de surfer pour pouvoir voyager."

Chris Malloy

Gif de Flying Bee Animations

[pepe-000]

Vini, Vici, Vidi.