San Sebastian, Spain Travel Blogs

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 ...

San Sebastian to Salamanca
Mar 16, 2006 (10 photos)

... the city looking for 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 ...

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)

Yesterday we went to Pamplona. We took the bus there from San Sebastian in the afternoon and our intention was to catch some sleep for a couple of hours anywhere we could find it: parks, benches, whatever, and then stay up all night partying until 8 am ...

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

... it puts you in contact with some really neat people. One couple that we had discussed the possibility of exchange with lives in San Sebastian. Even though an exchange didn't work out between us (they ended up with a great offer from some people who live ...

Forgotten Amsterdam
Jul 8, 2004 (4 photos)

... Marley in my ears, 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, ...

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, ...

Spain Day 8 - Cider House RULZ!
Jul 6, 2008 (45 photos)

... , play with your 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 ...

San Sebastian..holy crap
Jun 17, 2006

... this huge mountain with a statue on it, its covered in vegetatian, we hiked to the top saw a great view of the beaches. San Sebastian has the most amazing beaches...google it. Its a GIGANTIC crescent beach that is gorgeous. We went down and hung out on the ...

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)

it was nice to get back to the beach for some relaxation again, even though one day was very cold and rainy, and the hostel owners called it 'melbourne weather' which is apparently normal there tho i didnt read that bit in the guidebooks! there was alot ...

Basque Spain
Dec 1, 2005 (8 photos)

... is a slow day. These baguettes are yummy! Waves We had the pleasure of watching the storm wave crash into the San Sebastian harbor. These waves created quite the spectical, drawing large numbers of the San Sabatianites out to watch and get wet. ...

Barcelona - San Sabastean - Bilbao - Day 5
May 19, 2006 (10 photos)

... yesterday, Sagrada Familia, Barcelona Pavilion, Casa Mila, Torre Agbar, geez a lot already. So we loaded the bus and headed west toward San Sebastian and Bilbao. Bus ride was supposed to be like 5 hrs or so. Well it ended up being like 13 hrs or so ...

GlamourSunCity
May 17, 2006 (14 photos)

... 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 ...

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

... , going 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 ...

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

... shady guests such as Tom and myself. Met a friendly Sth African actor/playwright by the name of Ben, a friendly bloke travelling around Spain on motorcycle, and both feeling the pangs of unfitness, we trundled down to the beach for a nice late arvo jog, ...

san sebastian
Jul 8, 2007 (15 photos)

... 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 hang out with ...

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)

... also a lot going on around this part of Europe right now. There's an international film festival going on right here in San Sebastian starting tomorrow, there's all sorts of small parties and festivals going on around the Basque region, and there's also a ...

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 ...