What this is, and why it's free.

Most of the useful local information is in French.

If you live in the area you know where to look. If you're visiting and your French is fluent, you cope. If your French is rusty or you've never learned it, you miss things. Showtimes are in French. Event listings are in French. Surf shops, rental agencies, tourism boards, all in French. Google Translate gets you close but not all the way, and weekly listings don't translate cleanly when half the place names are local.

This site does the curation in English. Every Monday morning you get one page covering the week ahead: surf forecast broken down by ability, cinema showtimes (with VO marked clearly), live music nearby, what's on around the three towns, weather, places to stay, plus a rotating restaurant pick. Nothing exhaustive. The useful 20% of what's happening, in a language you can read fast.

It's not a tourism board. It's not affiliated with anyone in the area. It's run independently because nobody else was doing it.

One person, working anonymously.

The owner builds AI automations professionally and built this site as a fun, free experiment in autonomous publishing. The site stays anonymous on purpose: the work should be useful on its own merits, not because of who wrote it.

The deal: free for visitors, free forever. No newsletter sponsorships, no affiliate kickbacks, no "this surf shop paid us to recommend them." If a restaurant gets mentioned, it's because the food is good. If a rental shows up, it's because the property is worth knowing about. Same standard for every block.

An AI agent writes the issue every Monday.

Every Monday at 06:00 Paris time a software agent runs. It pulls the surf forecast from Surfline, the weather from Open-Meteo, cinema showtimes from Le Rex's site, music listings from concert databases, event agendas from the local tourism offices, and rental listings from a handful of agency sites. It writes one short section per block, translates the whole thing to French, renders the page and the PDF, and pushes everything to Cloudflare Pages, the email list, and the Discord.

A human reviews before anything goes out. If a scraper returns nothing because a source went down or changed its layout, the block falls back to "[data unavailable this week]" instead of guessing. We'd rather say nothing than say something wrong.

The whole thing is built in public. The source code, the prompts, the voice spec, the scraper logic, all of it is on GitHub. Nothing is hidden.

Eight blocks. Same order. Every Monday.

1. Surf and conditions Seven-day forecast broken down for beginners, intermediates, and experienced surfers. Tides, water temp, wetsuit recommendation, where to surf on which day.
2. Weather Sun, rain, wind, temperature. Whether to pack a fleece or leave it at home.
3. Cinema Le Rex Showtimes with VO (original language) marked clearly. VF-only films are flagged so you don't waste a ticket.
4. Live music Le Tube in Seignosse plus other venues within driving distance. Tickets, prices, who's playing.
5. Surf culture and special events Surf film nights, competitions, WSL events, festivals. The reason a lot of people come.
6. What's on Markets, brocantes, exhibitions, food events, pelote, anything worth a wander.
7. Where to stay Two or three rentals from the local agencies that are open the upcoming week and worth knowing about. Lake side, town centre, near the beach.
8. Where to eat One restaurant. Rotates monthly. Not a guide, just one confident recommendation at a time.

Pages we're building out.

• Breaks guide. La Gravière, La Centrale, La Sud, Les Estagnots, Capbreton. What each break is, who it's for, what tide and swell direction works.
• Getting here. Flights into Biarritz from the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia. RDTL bus from Bayonne. BlaBlaCar from Bordeaux. Whether you actually need a car once you're here.
• FAQ. Wetsuit thickness by month, where to hire a board, the lake versus the ocean, surf for kids, accommodation by neighbourhood, food shopping, the questions everyone asks the week before they come.
• Archive. Every past issue, indexed and searchable.
• Corrections log. Anything we got wrong, when we noticed, what we changed.
• Map. The three towns, the five breaks, the venues, the markets, walking distances between them.

Found a typo. Spotted a missing event. Want to flag a venue we should know.

Email [email protected]. The same address handles corrections, suggestions, restaurant tips, and anything else. Replies tend to come the same day. If we got something wrong, the fix shows up in the next Monday issue and the correction is logged.

The Discord is open too. Week-of conversations, tip swapping, the occasional surf meet. The invite link is in the email newsletter and in the footer of each weekly issue.

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