San Sebastian, Spain and Canary Islands Travel Blogs

Spain Day 6 - Vamos a San Sebastian!
Jul 4, 2008 (41 photos)

... 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
Jul 5, 2008

... 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 arrival, ...

Studying in San Sebastian
Aug 12, 2005

... . 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!
Jul 6, 2008 (45 photos)

... 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
Mar 16, 2006 (10 photos)

... 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
Aug 28, 2004 (12 photos)

... 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. So ...

San Sebastián
Aug 19, 2008 (43 photos)

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 ...

Crossing the border
Sep 29, 2007

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Escape from Pamplona
Jul 11, 2004 (4 photos)

... 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 hearing ...

Forgotten Amsterdam
Jul 8, 2004 (4 photos)

... 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 ...

San Sebastian..holy crap
Jun 17, 2006

... 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 girls.

Goodbye San Seb, hellooo Madrid
Apr 19, 2006 (2 photos)

... 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 Madrid.

San Sebastian
Oct 8, 2006 (1 photos)

Hola! San Sebastian is said to be Spains most Beautiful city. It's set around an awesome, perfectly shaped small bay with a beautiful beach. We got an apartment here so we could get back to some home cook'n. We did nothing here but hung out and played ...

Spanish Coast
Apr 17, 2002

What a beautiful city and a great introduction to Spain.  Loved it.

Passing Through San Sebastian
Dec 6, 2008 (4 photos)

Before embarking on a grueling 14 hour train ride, we provisioned ourselves in San Sebastian. After heading into town and hunting around for several hours with full packs on, we returned to the train station and found everything we needed just a block away ...

beach again
Aug 27, 2006 (3 photos)

... ! 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 surf.

Basque Spain
Dec 1, 2005 (8 photos)

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
May 17, 2006 (14 photos)

... 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 the ...

The beachy part - San Sebastian
May 29, 2007 (5 photos)

... I 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. Had a ...

Irun and San Sebastian - Good Vs. Evil
Sep 7, 2006 (1 photos)

After Bordeaux, we wanted to visit San Sebastian, a beach town in the North of Spain. Unfortunately, we made the mistake of booking our hotel in the Hell Hole, that is the town called Irun. Technically, our hotel wasn't even IN Irun, it was on a stretch of ...

Night train to San Sebastian
Apr 19, 2007

Check back in a week, it will take a while to catch up!!!

Back in Spain again for couple of days
Apr 19, 2007

We made it here finally, will update when we can.  Thanks for reading our travel log.

Sun of San Sebastian eighteen years young today...
Jul 27, 2007

... to the beach during the day, and coming out later, around eight, for drinks and tapas, which made up our dinner. San Sebastian was a smaller city, and so we easily got the touristy things done quickly (climbing to the top of the hill in the center to see ...

Soaking up the San Sebastian Rays
Apr 18, 2006 (16 photos)

... to U2 and the cranberries in an Irish pub at the North of SPain. Discussed the clear difference in drinking culture between Spain and Australia, in that Spaniards drink only to get a little tipsy, preffering a small snifter of the good stuff to get them ...

san sebastian
Jul 8, 2007 (15 photos)

hey guys! ok, so we are in san sebastian and after our week long stay, it´s time to move on to barcelona. not a lot to write about san sebastian. it´s totally beautiful (especailly once the sun came out). liss and i did a fair bit of exploring and went to ...

RAIN!
Jun 24, 2006

Really pretty little beach town. Now what do you do on the beach, in Spain, in late JUne??!! Sunbathe? Yes, well that was my intention. It rained the WHOLE time we were there. Not very impressed, i had intended on getting an enviable tan. oh well!! Still ...

Hola Donostia
Sep 19, 2006 (41 photos)

... will upload the rest of Paris and all the photos from here. Jules Edit: Some things came to me as we left San Sebastian today, and while we were on the beach yesterday. The beach culture seems to be a lot more popular amongst the Spanish. During ...

Tapas in San Sebastian
Jun 22, 2007

... types of sauces, meats and seafood, usually on a small slice of baguette. After that, we'll be catching an overnight train to our next stop, Tarifa, in the south of Spain. It's tough to leave San Sebastian... another trip here is definitely in the cards!

¿Por qué es tan simpática la gente aquí?
Aug 25, 2008 (6 photos)

... Aunque 17 días pueden ser pocos para sacar conclusiones nos hemos quedado tan abrumados por la hospitalidad que hemos visto en San Francisco y alrededores que nos atrevemos a afirmar que la cercanía, la amabilidad y la empatía que hemos recibido no la ...

It rained at first but i was determined to ...
Jun 29, 2001

... have had two superb cloudless days!! I´m taking a break from being a beach bum right now to write this entry. A typical sunny day in San Sebastian goes as follows: wake up, eat pastry, go to the beach all day, drink tinto de verano (red wine and tonic water ...