After lunch back in Anglet, our next destination was Salies-de-Béarn, a small town famed (and named) for the naturally occurring saline water.
The photo doesn’t really show the huge crack in the church tower. We took our lives in our hands walking past!
Some back streets were heavily decorated with plants…
…some just growing out of the side of the road.
Local legend says that an injured wild boar once fell into a nearby marsh and when it was recovered it was covered in salt and completely preserved. Nowadays local salt is used in the preservation of ‘jambon de Bayonne’
In the town centre the river is channeled…
…with room for flooding and access over bridges.
Some other David obviously visited here too…
…but he’s not as well-known as the wild boar!
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