Abba Parque Bilbao

... over the northern Atlantic somewhere). The flight was pretty short—about 7 ˝ hrs. We arrived in Munich where it was about 32 degrees. They’re expecting snow later today! We had two hours before our connecting flight. Just enough time to whuff down some coffee and a croissant. We skirted the Alps on our way westward. The morning sun bathed those magnificent mountains with a golden hue. Now, in ...

We drove from Madrid, got a bit lost trying to find Lurdea. We thought it is a name of a village but it is not it is just the name of the Hotel/Casa Rural.

The place is amazing. Located in the hills above Bermeo, with magnificent view of the ocean. It is clean (like really clean) and has the air of a relaxing boutique hotel.

Bilbao, the capital of Viscaya in the county, with the nice weather and climate that is milder than in most other parts of the peninsula, rarely falling below freezing in winter or rising above 35 degree C in summer.

One of the best features of this place is the collection of Museums that exhibit the artifacts that well ...

... The weather has now improved, today was warm and sunny and this a great way to walk off the food ! You see many other aspects of the redevelopment of Bilbao (the Ria 2000 project) including attractive bridges, and Euskalduna Palace cultural centre all redeveloped from the docks. The Maritime museum itself is worth a visit, I particularly liked "Blues" the temporary exhibition of underwater photography.

... the Casco Viejo - the old town. Very attractive - can't wait to visit tonight for a "txikiteo" (traditional bar crawl sampling the local food speciality - pintxos - tiny tapas on sticks). I enjoyed a coffee this morning in ...

... to amaze me here in Spain. In Nevada and Idaho I haven't been exposed to anything like it, but it is the way to go in bigger cities. Sundays can be a little slower with less routes schedules. That just means you have to be patient. After I got off the metro in Leioa and found my bus stop to the basketball game and had to wait almost an hour. I shared the bench with a 76 year-old man full of conversation. He spoke no English and it was ...

Urghh long, long bus journey from Valencia. Sleeping tablets helped, but what didn't were the rude Spanish couple behind us who persisted on banging on the back of our seats all journey. They seemed angry that we were using the recline function which we had paid, and were entitled to use...

Anyway, arrive at about 8 or something where we got ...

... in San Sebastian. It's definitely nice hearing Spanish everywhere again, despite the lousy weather. It was raining and I was the only fool in shorts and sandals. It was still nice because it was more of a light mist, and it cooled things off. I had an early night and returned to the hotel to watch some Euro cup soccer. Truth be told, I booked at this hotel because I saw a review from a Spanish guy that the hotel had a "really hot and really ...

As there was a rather long queue to San Mamés metro station I walked to the next one, Indautxu, which was less busy but I didn't think that the metro train would still be busy. When I arrived at Casco Viejo my rather tatty creditrans ticket refused to work so I hopped over the barriers. I walked to Pizza Via, a pizza takeaway not far from my hotel. I ordered a ...

We checked out of our hotel in San Sebastian early because Garrett needed to get to the Bilbao airport. We took the scenic ride through the mountains and got him there with time to spare. Driving between San Sebastian and Bilbao took about 1 hour. The A-8 tollroad is ...