The magic of Dune de Pilat

IT is said “God made the world but the Dutch made Holland”.

Visiting Gascony last week it seemed to me the people there have done something similar.

The Les Landes region stretches southwards from the estuary of the Gironde to the foothills of the Pyrenees. It’s an enormous plain bordered by a magnificent beach, over 200km long, punctuated occasionally by rivers.