Hotel Vista Alegre Bilbao

Having disembarked the Pride of Bilbao, following our two day mini-cruise (the highlights of which were DVD horse races, bingo, Geordies on the lash and two memorable dining experiences at Langans Brasserie), we faced the delights of industrial Bilbao, which proved to be a fitting introduction to North Spain. Undaunted we headed to ...

... small place got packed by about 3:30. We had a delicious meal: 1) a Basque version of bruschetta (ham, tomatoes, sea salt, olive oil), 2) a clam that gave you a burst of sea, 3) the best calamari that I have ever had (whole, not your strips type) and then tail of bull (rabo de toro). Oh, yeah, I think we also had a bottle of red wine. Yum!<br><br>We took a nap after a short walk after that. We walked ...

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.<br><br>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>

... 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. <br><br>Hotel Information<br><br>Hotel Centro Bilbao<br>

... walk in the afternoons when it is nice. We walk to school everyday (20 -30 Min's). Today the group went to Bilbao to see the Guggenheim Museo. It was really cool. Not even the stuff in it, just the building its self. We also saw a cathedral, and a smaller museo. Today kinda sucked because I got left by the group 2x's. We were in the first Museum, and I was the last one out because I was still looking at things, when came out everyone was gone ...

... the tube to head to camping Soplena. After the blow out in Ibiza we thought we'd keep it cheap and camp. The plan was to spend a few days here, then head to San Sebastien and then into France.<br><br>Camping Sopelana - DONT STAY HERE! Although the beach it is is AMAZING and beautiful, the campsite here is not. It's dirty, dirty, dirty and really ...

... chocolate rounded things out. Breakfast was beans, hashed browns, and scrambled eggs. Flavourless. Strange that they included a Kit Kat with breakfast, but it was the only tasty thing in the box so I'm not complaining. One good thing this year is that they've added more leg room to Thomas Cook planes. No more cramped legs! Despite only having an OK landing, everybody started clapping. Why? Do they expect the plane to crash, and they are so ...

... metal and glass. We took some pictures, while holding the North Shore News (of course it´s the one with Connor´s picture on the front page!), and spent the next two hours exploring the exhibits. I was suitably impressed and actually enjoyed it much more than I thought I would, as did Jim. The 5th member of our pilgrim team, Sandi Heath, arrived around 6:00 so we wandered back to Old Town for dinner and managed to find a restaurant at 8:30 that was empty ...

I keep saying that I am going to write more frequently so that I can keep everyone updated and I can stop worrying that I am going to forget everything I have been doing. Unfortunately, I have no gotten any less busy lately, and I am pretty sure that I am not going to while I am here. So, I will try to recount the more exciting aspects of the last few days here in Santander. Last time I wrote I was Thursday and I was going to go to an "intercambio" at the university ...

mornin' yall trying to scrape ourselves off the san sebastian sidewalk after a night of drinkin txhalcia, a white wine champagne, followed by kixalto's, a red wine mixed with coke, and then several gin and kas's. kas is a lemonade type soda. we wandered through the old town, making fun of french people, telling australian's that they can't party as hard as americans, and chatting it up with some americans who came to san sebastian for a month to learn spanish, and their ...