Apartamentos Mundaka

... to the Guggenhiem and took some photos, but left the visit for tomorrow.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Today was a full day. Did the Guggenhiem, went up the "Funicular" up the moutain, found a nice “asador” (grilling) restaurant, took a nap and made it out for pinchos (not to be confused with “pinches”). Pinchos is the Basque version of tapas. Stopped at 5 places and had ...

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.

... for thousands of year the history of the City and Spain As a whole.

Guggenheim Museum
Museo de Bellas Artes
Basque Museum
La Ría Maritime Museum
Museo Taurino (Bullfighting Museum)
Museo Diocesano de Arte Sacro (Museum of Sacred Art)
Museo de Reproducciones Artísticas (Museum of Artistic Reproductions ...

... is astounding. The only flat surfaces are the floors. The outside is clad in titanium. Words do not do it justice.....look at the pictures. The inside was equally spectacular but we could not take photographs. The building outshone the majority of the art work unless you are a fan of self indulgent video installations!!

... 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.

We arrived in Mundaka early in the morning and quickly found our hotel. Just around the corner was the parking lot and church of Mundaka. The surf was 15-20 feet and fairly clean. However, as the day wore on it became more and more ragged. Mark spent the morning trying to track down a bodyboard and fins to take a shot at the surf, but to no avail. However, it was likely for the best ...

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 ...

We finally reach our destination just in time for having dinner at a friend's place, after that we went to sleep 'cause we had class before starting the trip and were very tired. Early in the morning after breakfast and checking the web to see where the competition would take place we went to Bakio, a big beach near Mundaka. We spend all the morning watching the best surfers doing incredible tricks with waves that weren't too good. In the ...

Another storm greeted us early Wednesday morning. It's always raining when we decide to make a move, which is what we had planned for today. So we packed up the wet tent and headed off further west towards the famous surf spot, Mundaka. We drove the scenic route again taking some of the narrowest, cliffhanging roads I have ever driven. We rarely got out of second gear. At times the road was flanked by small rock walls, so when ...

... a lovely dinner in an old stone building and then took to the highway and drove to a beach just outside Bilbao for the night. Caught the train into Bilbao for a night out in the city and what a dodgy night is was!!Saturday night in Bilbao seemed to be full of young fashion victims and drunken dropkicks!! Dinner was worst ever at Ghandi Indian Restaurant....we ordered up a feast and it was disgusting! Can´t believe they even operate as a restuarant...my vego ...