Lintzirin Hotel Oiartzun 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.

           

Judy spent the day with Pierre, a former wrestler and French Olympic wresting coach (he went with the team to Atlanta) who she had met on the train ride a few days ...

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

                   

Another lovely beach day was followed by an evening tour by Tom and Sue of nearby Bayonne, the financial center of Bayonne/Anglet/Biarritz. What a cute town!! It has a beautiful 14th century ...

... 8220;Buddy, it’s not the Mediterranean, what do you expect?” Yes, it’s not – and I don’t come here to bathe in the warm ocean, I come to bask in all other things Spanish and beautiful :)

Over to the hostel – San Sebastian has this great vibe to it, and even a simple walk here is a very enjoyable experience. I stayed at David Quinn’s last year, and came back because he’s a great guy, it’s got a ...

... the bridge of my nose is so white from my sunglasses and I had a shadow on either side of my nose. so it's white below my nose - I must look like a freak.  :)   The computer is about to die (and we have no internet access so I'm writing this in notepad to update when we next have it).

Our plan for tomorrow is to wake up and go to the painted forest, some caves, a village clinging to the cliff and Bilbao.  I'll let you know how it goes if I end up documenting anything else.  

... and finished when the bar closed. So we slept in until a little past noon :D And finally Renata's fantasy of having some one bring her a grilled croissant drove us to get up to find something to eat. After having lunch we went to book our train ticket for our long travel day to Munich. We found out at the train station that we would have to take a train to Hendaye on the French side of the border 35 minutes away just to book the journey. Since we knew that the journey to ...

... ever seen. i took off imediqtely following advice and sticking close to the wall and never looking back. when i made it to the ring i ran to the side and hopped out to watch as the bulls ran through. now is the part that i am thankful i didnt take part in. after the running of the bulls; eight baby bulls are released one by one into the arena to fight with all of the runners who are brave enough to stick around. it was completely insane and dangerous either you got ...

... of the opening ceremony - the experience of the two nights of no sleep and partying - and THE RUNNING OF THE BULLS! We leave for the train station and I see my buddies off. They have a few days in Paris and then back home. I spend the day walking around and then enter the arena to watch the 6 bulls I ran with get murdered. I see how it can be a major part of their culture to worship the bull fighters, but the way they go about taking the bulls life is quite stunning ...