Arrizul San Sebastián - Donostia

Tom and Sue took the day to zip to Bilbao (1:45 south of Biarritz) to see the famous Guggenhiem Museum. Wow, what a building!! The exhibits pale in comparison, but still we enjoyed a solid 4 hours at the museum. Afterwards, we drove back to San Sebastian where Sue introduced me to Alona Berri, the ...

I don't really need to tell you what we did do I? Take one part playground, one part beach, and one part sunset and you have a Kramer day in Biarritz.

           

... Dispite the language barriers they had a lovely time exploring the basque country side. What did we do? Why go to the beach, of course!!

                     

... the kids slept. Tom did a little surfing and another nice sunset was enjoyed during dinner.

                   

... we tried to get a lesson from our hostel but they said the instructor wasn´t available. I think he was hungover because I saw him moping around the hostel. We rented boards and head out to Playa Zuricola, tons of surfers were out and the waves look meanacing. Thank god the dude renting the boards told us where the ...

... to Bremen to do her master’s degree, and is doing a bit of traveling before settling in. She’s yet another person that visited San Sebastian, and fallen in love with it. Sounds like she’s fallen in love with every other place she’s visited in Spain, too. Her words sounded vaguely familiar to me ... I think she mentioned that Bremen wasn’t too far from Hamburg – ahhh ... Hamburg ... another city ...

... could have stayed in San Sebastian for longer!!

But, alas, we did have a reservation (apparently an overlapping one for one of our nights in San Sebastian!) and we´re finally in Madrid. The hostel we booked is in a great location right downtown, but the reception only works till 10...so when we tried to check in at 10:30 last night we found we were out of luck! No worries though, we found another place for the night and are now back where we belong and ready to take on Madrid!

After the disappointing trip to the beach in France, it was off to San Sebastian to enjoy a day visitng this beautiful city. The trip was not long and the rain was. We arrived to pouring rain and decided to see if there was a night train to Barcelona so we could escape the rain. We were also hoping that the rain would let up a bit and we could explore the city. We walked over to the train station and down the stairs when ...

... for this one week) and you don't sleep, you just party all night. We dump our **** off and bring nothing with us. I'm trying to slam some water hoping it will cure the hangover as we walk towards the entrance of the race (there are a few entrance points). We buy our white garb and red scarves on the way (these shops are conveniently open all the time). There is a small crew of about 9 of us from the bus that are hanging ...

... arrives Thursday morning. We will then take a bus back to San Sebastian and be back by evening. I'm planning on taking her on a short tour Friday morning and then we'll take off to Paris Friday night to begin our three-country tour!! After Paris, we go to Switzerland, and then to Italy!!...heheheh...at first, I was thinking that this was pretty cool, but then everyone seemed more excited than I was when I would tell them about it, and now, I'm really, really excited!!!..hahahhaha.. =)