San Sebastian
Travel Blogs from San Sebastian, Spain and Canary Islands
San Sebastian Weeked
Hello everyone. I am tagging this entry from San Sebastian (although I am home), so you can see on the map where I was at this weekend. Friday after school, I took a bus to San Sabby to stay with my friends from the Madrid tour. They ...
SAN SEBASTIAN!!
I took a bus to San Sebastian for the day, I left Pamplona around 7 am and didn´t come back until 10pm. It was so much fun!! I went to the bus station with two other students but it turned out that lots of other international students had the same idea ...
Les Autres Jours European
... by, I'm beginning to feel more comfortable with how everything works here. We went on an excursion to San Sebastien, in Spain, this last weekend and it totally revived my spirits and once again reminded me how incredible it is that I'm here in ...
The bumpy road to Spain
Our entry into Spain last night was, simply put, pretty terrible. We boarded an overnight train from Paris to San Sebastian which itself wouldn't have been bad if there wasn't a man in the above couchette snoring obscenely loudly and relentlessly... ALL ...
Week 2
... in the evening we went to Parte Vieja for a festival, "el 31 de Agosto:" "On August 31, 1813 British and Portuguese troops besieging San Sebastian defeated French occupying troops. The relieving troops lost all self-control and burnt down the city. ...
San Sebastian
San Sebastian was awesome. Beautiful city, great beach and I stayed at a wonderful hostel. The food was great as was the nightlife. I take a bus to Barcelona and am looking forward to checking it ...
San Sebastian (aka: Sangria 1, us 0 )
... all to ourselves and the remaining guests banded together for some hallway cricket and movies to escape the empty hostel feeling. San Sebastian was beautiful and I could see my self spending a lot of time and money there. On our first day we walked up ...
Sábado en San Sebastian
I made plans to go to San Sebastian with 2 friends this weekend on Saturday, but when we were at the bus station, about 17-18 other international students arrived with the same plans! So we all spent the day together there, and had an awesome ...
...ca y est!!! je me dirige vers l'Espagne!!
!!!enfin!! mais vaux mieux tard que j'amais!! ...un ti break vacances de 6jours sans me déplacer on va prendre des forces pour ętre prčte pour le grand trajet de St-Jacques de compostelle...de 30 jours de ...
Adventure on Spanish Coast
... and photographing the beautiful views (and Jesús). San Sebastián, or Donostia as it is known in Catalán, is on the northern coast of Spain and the geography is laid out in a very interesting way. There is a big bay with lots of boats and two beaches ...
Beaches!
I arrived in San Sebastian, Spain this morning. I rode my first overnight, sleeper train last night. It was different than I thought it would be, but not bad. I got really lucky and had 4 other people my age in my couhcette. We all chatted for a while and ...
Well that´s a story to tell the grandkids
I got into San Sebastian about 9 last night. Me and my buddy Storm decided to try and walk around and find some sort of accomodations. We knew it would be hard but we didn´t think it would be impossible. We walked for about 3 hours straight all around ...
Week 12
... next to the building where Ignatius was born and lived for most of his life. We then got back on the bus and drove back to San Sebastian. I took a short nap and then went out for pintxos. I got a ham, cheese, and mushroom tempura-type ...
The most beautiful city in all of Europe.
... small tavern bars and Sangeria, the feeling of the city is undescribable. A friend recently just mentioned that she had been in San Sebastian for a semester as an exchange student. She has friends still there who are welcoming me in, so I may just be ...
San Sebastian - Statues of Jesus and Arzak
... to Barcelona to catch a 5.5 hour "high speed" train to San Sebastian. There are only two services between Barcelona and San Sebastian. The first train from Barcelona to San Sebastian left 4 minutes before the first train from Girona arrived in Barcelona, ...
A Brief Stop in Spain
... spend a few days in a Spanish town. Very close to the French border in the very north west corner of Spain lies a small town called San Sebastian. We found a very nice place to pitch the tent and spent 3 days wandering the streets and walking on the ...
La Gomera en vertrekkerskriebels!
... de grote hoogteverschillen. Toch hebben we met de kerst twee geweldige wandelingen gemaakt. De eerste dag vanaf ons stadje, San Sebastian. Klauterend als berggeiten hebben we een kale rotsachtige helling beklommen. Bovenaan kwamen we bij een groot ...
Love this place!
... be. Now I can say that I surfed in the Bay of Biscayne. I need more practice though. I've met a lot of really nice and fun people at the hostel. We have all been hanging out during the day and at night. The beaches are great and the tapas are awesome ...
Bronzed Breasts
... place is georgous! After finding the cathedral, I started my day with coffee on the beach (only second to coffee in bed). San Sebastian is on the Bay of Biscay and is made of a couple "coves". I saw a big statue of Jesus up on a hill so I decided to ...
San Sebastian
... the best of luck with my night train experiences. Before heading off on my 8 hour day trek across the north of Spain to San Sebastian, it had been about two months since I had proper train travels, and to be honest, I was quite excited for ...
the departure
... we had lunch with my parents and bothers in Alberite (La Rioja) and we went in the afternoon to pick up our friends to San Sebastian in order to get to Hendaye (France). Once we said goddbye to our families we have received all kind of recomendations for ...
Finally on the Beach!
The day had come to depart Paris on an overnight train to San Sebastian, Spain. I didn´t want to leave Paris, but the thought of relaxing in the sun on a beach was tempting enough! Our last day in Paris was spent climbing the Eiffel Tower, one of my most ...
Ohlaa Espana.... Tapas here we come
... vodka!!! Crazy...we had to buy two bottle before we left Spain to take with us. We got our first bit of a suntan in San Sebastian.... some of us decided not to use sunscreen 'coz I don't burn' and ended up a little more pink than brown (it wasn't ...
Vacation from my vacation # 1 - San Sebastian
Today, I woke up early to catch the TGV train to San Sebastian, Spain for a much needed vacation from my vacation. My train left Bordeaux St. Jean station at 9:45 am and arrived in San Sebastian around 2 PM . Again, I had the whole first class train ...
San Sebastian
... everything you want out of your trip. The service they provide to their visitors is truly 5-star. The weather here in San Sebastian has been beautiful for this time of year - sunny and in the 60's. We spent our days walking around, ...
Week 4
... (you do the math...ouch!) We were 2nd row right in the middle of the field! The San Sebastian team, Real Sociedad, played Real Madrid and unfortunately, we lost 2-1 but it was a good game. Everyone knows that Europe loves their futbol ...
Back With The Sane People
... did not want tapas again but found it hard to find anything but. In the end we opted for a simple baguette from a cafe but were all dissapointed with our choice. We capitalised on the normality of San Sebastian by having an early night to bed. ...
Tapas, beers, mullets and the enormous Christ
... . From then on, everything that went well on the trip was ´Bloody Sweet´. Thought much smaller in population we found San Sebastian instantly more welcoming and nicer to look at, a hip seaside city with a wealth of history, a huge bay with an enormous ...
Roll Call!
... know about some of the interesting people I've met along the way. After leaving Caen I made my way by train down to San Sebastian, Spain which is just over the border from France and right on the coast. Now as I've said in previous posts I have already ...

