Iriarte Jauregia 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 ...

... beer. The locals do move on after 10 minutes in one place. The quality of vthe pintxos was excellent and the creativity extraordinary, you don't really need to go Michelin for degustacion ! Pride of place for me goes to Zeruko and their Hoguero (the Bonfire)

La hoguera (The bonfire) is served on a small casserole topped with a metallic grid. Inside there is some smoky rosemary. The main ingrediente is half-smoked cod, that the ...

... beaches in all of Europe. Our walk takes us to the city's two most central tourist stops: the cathedral and a church supposedly EXACTLY one kilometer away. But the true destination of our walking tour is a fabulous restaurant for the Spanish tradition of Pinchos. (not the Mexican curse word). The food, in two words = Oh my. This small corner bar serves cider and Pinchos freshly made to order. Half the Pinchos you could just self serve style put them on ...

... faulty map. So we got lost again, until I pulled out a different map and found our place. Our friends from Cal Poly who are studying in Spain for the year happen to contact us the day before we were coming to Bilbao telling us that they were going to be there the same time. So we were able to meet up with them in front of the Guggenheim Museum. It was so spontaneous and fun, not to mention great to see familiar faces. We were a little late in arriving to the museum due to getting ...

... with our jeans sweaters and ponchos. By midnight we were popsicles and we wandered off in search of warmer territory which we found in a ditch by some handball courts near the towns star shaped park. after a long night of cuddling cody and i awoke to find the entire city dressed in white jump suits and red scarves. This was the beggining of san fermin, possibly the craziest festival on earth. Starving, we walked to a nearby shop and bought an apple, loaf of bread ...

... hostel in Alicante 'cuz someone made reservations for the wrong night (d'oh! can't figure out why I screwed that up since I knew my flight date.). After finally getting checked in, it was rather late so I just took a walk around town and got some food. The next day I looked around town more, got some cheap clothes (for La Tomatina) and laid out on the beach. I must say it's nice to be back in Spain - the culture and way of life are fun ...