Albergue Bilbao

... time to walk around Bilbao.

Wow! Bilbao is fantastic! It reminds me of Bogota, only cooler. It is surrounded by beautiful hills (unless you live in Texas, then they’re mountains!). You can almost smell the sea. We had a short nap after we checked in then got up and had lunch (we showed up at a bout 2:30 and the guy told us we were just a bit early for lunch, but he served us). Sure enough ...

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.

... br>With the nice tourist services in the place such as tourist guide, accommodation and transportation is more convenient a tourist-friendly place. Hoteles en Bilbao, restaurantes Bilbao, Bilbao car hire and other tourist services are one of the economic sources of the city.

Hotel Information

Hotel Centro Bilbao

... but much of the rest of the contents is just a bit too modern for me. Its the sort of art that challenges you to think what is art, which unlike most people I don't think is a bad thing, but only in small doses. One of the floors was closed when I was there being prepared for a new temporary exhibition.

I ate at the Guggenheim. To be honest I probably wouldn't have bothered had I not booked it some weeks ...

... that it was founded in 1911 and restored in 1992.

As well as pintxos this area has a far higher number of Michelin starred restaurants than most. I am going out of town to try one for lunch - so more later.

... the two of us waiting. I caught most of what he said and could answer back pretty well. It's amazing the amount of people here that ask me what I think of the election. "Espero que es bien." (I hope it is good). That is usually all I can come up with: 1) because I don't know much Spanish 2) because I know even less about politics and 3) I always try to keep a positive outlook!   He helped me out by letting me know what stop to get off for ...

... somewhere you want to stay. True is relatively near the tube into the city (a cab ride of about £5) but it's not worth it. We left and didn't pay for the night we stayed there (I'm not sorry).

We also came to the conclusion that we needed a car so hired one to drive us to San Seb. Spent a another day in Bilbao seeing the obvious Guggenheim.

The building looks tiny from the street. Its been a bit cloudy and it reflects the non steel limestone surfaces quite a bit. I don´t hate it as much as I had hoped, but I can´t say I like the limestone...oh sorry, I´m speaking of the Bilbao Guggenheim of course. I just needed a bit of a ranting session. Well, being in Basque country is...great. I don´t speak ...

Once I had arrived back at San Mamés after looking at the Guggenheim there was about an hour and fifteen minutes before kick off. The gates didn't open til an hour before so I stood around for fifteen minutes then went in the stadium. The game itself was a good one, Joseba Garmendia headed in the only goal after 17 minutes. Espanyol ...