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Travel Blogs from San Sebastian, Spain and Canary Islands
Spain Day 6 - Vamos a San Sebastian!
This is a top pick! ... had a very long shallow entry which made it ideal for the kids. After some swimming, ... we jumped in the car and on to San Sebastian. One of the neat things about the home exchange websites is that it puts you in contact with some really neat people. ...
Spain Day 7 - La Sociedad
This is a top pick! ... pork ... cheese ... bread. Another group is half way through eating their salad. I'm drooling. Jaione (native San Sebastian ... Basque) and Inigo (from Southern Spain) have taken all of the work out of the experience for us. By email before our ...
Studying in San Sebastian
This is a top pick! ... . After a complicated change of trains in Paris, I was whizzing through the French countryside on my way to San Sebastian, the gastonomical capital of Spain, to do a language/cooking course. San Sebastian is a gorgeous city, and the area is like no ...
Spain Day 8 - Cider House RULZ!
This is a top pick! ... children, advise you on which bar has the best Pinchos. ... Inigo and Jaione have really made this trip to San Sebastian a special experience for us. And even more important than all of that, we really feel like we have made some great friends for life! ...
San Sebastian to Salamanca
This is a top pick! ... a supermarket (mainly so that I could obtain beer) and while doing so inadvertently saw all three of San Sebastian's major attractions (all churches and all closed). Over a five-hour period we stopped at bars for tapas twice. Tapas are snacks comprising ...
you say to-mah-to, i say to-mae-to
This is a top pick! ... went to the beach for more sun. San Sebastian is a cool town I'd definately recommend. Nice place to chill out. San Sebastian Spain needs to improve their train ticket purchasing system. Many countries have machines to buy tix from, but not Spain. ...
San Sebastián
This is a top pick! We arrived in San Sebastian in dreadful weather which was really the first time since Munich that we had any bad weather. We have been extremely lucky thus far with weather in Europe where we've had very little rain and only a few scorchers. Luckily the ...
Tapas tapas tapas!
This is a top pick! ... Spain. It is a very busy place and for good reason. It is stunning. Considering where it is situated, San Sebastian (or Donostia as some locals prefer) has had more than its fair share of conflict. There has been a struggle for ...
Escape from Pamplona
This is a top pick! ... . So I went back to the bus station, to the heaving mass. Got my ticket and then settled in for my hour ride back to San Sebastian and a soft bed. My soft bed is still waiting for me so I´m going to sign off right here. Hopefully next time you´ll be ...
Forgotten Amsterdam
This is a top pick! ... which they seemed to play everywhere we chilled. And that is really all there is to my trip to Amsterdam. San Sebastian is great. It is right by the beach and a smaller scale city than even Amsterdam. There are a lot of people here, who are heading to ...
Week 1
... classes at 10am and then we got a tour of the school. Deusto University is a small Catholic school; the San Sebastian campus has about 1,700 students and the Bilbao campus has about 8,000. The school is on top of a big hill and the buildings ...
San Sebastian..holy crap
... stayed out and partied while sending my girlfriend home and how that was fucked up. Christine was furious, but held it in. Anyways..that was our sign to take off and although we didnt want to leave San Sebastian we were happy to get away from those ...
Goodbye San Seb, hellooo Madrid
... Moroccan hash trade and the ins and outs (no pun intended) of the Madrid sex industry for our liking. Night befall the coastal gem of San Sebastian, and two blokes thousands of miles from home lugged back breaking packs on to the night train to ...
The best Tapas ever!!!
This is a top pick! We arrived into San Sebastian at peak hour, and after getting stuck in a traffic jam we finally found a great place to park not far from the old town and across from the water. We liked the place instantly and the more we walked the more we liked. ...
Happy Birthday Martina und Juna!
... / wollen wir wohl das lebendige, bunte, sportliche, modäne, studentische, touristische, sommerliche, Surfer- und Strandparadis San Sebastian hinter uns lassen. Ich vergaß: Einkaufsmeile, Schlemmer-Pintxos-Versuchung, Badespaß, ...und vieles Erhebende ...
Out at sea and from La Gomera to Capo Verde
... , mainly to the floor, shouting orders and telling us we were idiots too....so we began to think..... Night shifts lasted 3 hours and they consisted in a single member of the crew staying at the helm to make sure we were going in the right direction, ...
Week 7
... Vasco and Catalan in Barcelona. Its a mix between Spanish and Portuguese. Plaza de Espańa=Praza do Espańa...does anyone in Spain ACTUALLY speak Spanish? The pictures in this post are from this and last week's pintxos cooking course. ...
Tapas in San Sebastian
We set off from camp for San Sebastian, about a 45 minute drive away. We found the parkade and luckily we fit so we didn't have to circle around to any others. It was the snazziest parkade we’d ever seen and had red or green lights above the spots ...
Ever spent a day in a zoo?
... seminar. "I can't believe my booking has been misplaced! This is the only reason my company has sent me to San Sebastián - it is such a gorgeous city and I could happily spend all day on your beaches - but surely you can find it in your heart to find a ...
San Sebastain (Hola!) & Nice (Bonjour!)
... of our travels is an interesting one, our backpacking skills were definitely put to the test. We decided to go to San Sebastian in Spain, so we got up before the sun and caught the train to Montparnasse Bienvenue to try and organise our Eurail passes. We ...
beach again
... ! there was alot to do tho, between local hikes and shopping, cathedrales and museums, plus i headed out for tapas with an italian girl i met there. second day was alot sunnier, and i did get to rest on the beach after all, plus swim in some great ...
Basque Spain
Food and Lodging Well we visited San Sebastian just to sample the local Pinxos or the Basque version of Spanish Tapas. We were not disappointed. We offer this word of caution when selecting a hotel in San Sebastian; San Sebastian is a party town. Our ...
GlamourSunCity
... end up leaving tomorrow because it is rather hard to drag ourselves away. We had heard a lot of good things about San Sebastian and it hasnt disappointed us. Beautiful big crescent shaped beach right in the middle of town, busy little fishing port at ...
Hola Beach!!!
Megg and I jumped on the overnight bus from Madrid to San Sebastian on Wednesday night, and arrived very early Thursday morning.. We managed to find our hostel, and slept on a little couch for a couple of hours until someone who worked there came ...
The beachy part - San Sebastian
... like the idea of ´siesta´, from 1-4pm everyday but that can´t be good for productivity or the time-poor tourist... 2 days in San Sebastian - could be described as a sleepy little beach town, but I´m pretty sure the place would be hopping in summer. ...
Week 6
... and it took us 45 minutes-its up a big hill at a woman's house who is from Argentina. She is a chef and has lived in San Sebastian for 7 years-during the summer she lives with her family in Argentina. She taught us how to make pintxos. ...
Happy Birthday Ina!
Wir haben schon einmal Deine Geburtstagsgeschenke für Dich abgelichtet! Freu Dich drauf und genieße den Tag!!!! ...
San Sebastian... Yep that's the best I've got.
My trip to San Sebastian was relatively uneventful. The hostel I stayed at was relatively small, and not a very good place to meet people. Due mostly to the private rooms, and half of us were in Pamplona, so there might have only been 3-4 other people in ...