Hotel Palacio Oxangoiti Lekeitio

... when we grow up, we want to be like that...!!) (ha, only kidding..)

Signing off for now, thank you for all of you who have taken the time to read our blog,,, hope you've enjoyed reading it as much as we enjoyed reflecting and writing it.

Ciao for now.. Til Bali.......

Annabelle & Lym

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.

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Hotel Centro Bilbao

We slept in as much as we could this morning....they were pressure washing the square outside the window so it was pretty loud. We got up and walked down to the cove which has a beach and mountains surrounding it. So pretty! We sat along a wall and watched the waves crash on the rocks below us. It was too cold to lay-out or go surfing, but it didn´t rain so we were thankful! The view was amazing, probably the prettiest place I have ever been in my life. We all want to come back here. We ...

... area was, much much better. We still sucked, really not as easy as we thought it would be, we tried for a good 3 hours, then bailed cause our arms we barely paddling at the end.

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It was our final day in San Sebastian. Tom spent it by going to Biarritz to get the rental car and then returning home to watch the kids while Everett, Julie, and Sue went out to an amazing Pinxos meal. After dumping the grey water and ...

... Basque is different than any language in the world, the only active language with no links to any of the ancient languages) to food to music to ... well, everything. I won't be shouting "SPAIN!" here during photo ops, that's for dang sure. Parking is tough in this little city. We have a funny encounter with a local police man ... this guy was a six foot tall bundle of traffic guiding frustration. He stood in the town center guiding all four directions of traffic, and guidi ...

... are so energy conscious here. The bathtub/shower combo was open to the room by means of a window separating the two parts. Very funny for anyone on a business trip. The neighborhood, on the other hand, was not so nice. It's amazing that something as big and grand as the Guggenheim would be stuck in a place like Bilbao. The streets were dark, dirty and a little scary. We all stuck together when going to dinner and headed straight back to the hotel.

San Sebastian is a beach town on the North West Coastline of Spain. It is full of European Tourists out on the Beach, soaking up the sun. Unfortunately for us though, after our first day here, the sun disappeared and in came the rain and miserable weather. We have actually been quite unlucky with weather whilst in Europe. We have had a few days of nice weather and then in comes the rain again. There wasn't a whole ...

... even started. Lasted about a half hour in that then figured we needed to save our energy for the tomato fight so moved to the far end of town. There's a pole in the center of town with a leg of ham at the top. People make a human pyramid to get it down and that's supposedly when the tomato fight begins...but really it starts at noon regardless. The trucks (big dump trucks) came into town right where I was at. The trucks are filled with ...