Mercure San Sebastian San Sebastián - Donostia

... Pinxos restaurant she, Ev, and Jullie had loved 3 weeks earlier. It was truly amazing and we enjoyed talking with a lovely british couple who now run a B&B in Provence. Judy and the kids had a wet but fun time, as the weather had finally turned south.

                       

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!!

                     

We spent the morning touring our recently discovered Bayonne with the kids and Judy continued exploring during the afternoon ...

... cathedral and adorable cobble stone streets. Since it was sunday, the only place open was a small creperie, but we had a nice time nonetheless which Judy watched the kids.

             

... atmosphere and an even better location, it’s clean, has a good breakfast that you cook yourself, and amenities like free internet and laundry. It also seems to attract a good bunch of people http://www.travelpod.com/travel-photo/p wong/6/1214356920/img_0093.jpg/tpod.htm l

David got some help this year, Alex, a young girl from California who was in Spain doing the Camino de Santiago, and popped over to San Sebastian and stayed, because she ...

... would be long and we might run into troubles without advanced booking we decided it would be best to take the time to go to Hendaye and get everything booked (plus it was raining so going to the beach was out). In Hendaye we booked a morning train to Paris just fine, but found out the after noon train from Paris to Munich was all booked up and we would have to take an over night train. In the end it was time well spent because it allowed us to make the adjustments we ...

... before and some of the old town had been flooded. We saw newscrews about, and lots of big waves, but nothing to concerning. Next day we took a bus with Naroa to Bilbao. Quite a lot bigger than San Seb, but without the beach. Guggenheim Museum looked good, but I've learnt from experience that I don't really appreciate art museums (that cost) so we gave it a miss. Instead we hunted out the Basque Museum in the old town ...

... by a bull or you got knocked out by a spaniard that thought you had disrespected a bull (touching its horns although corked to prevent gorings). anyways it was completely insane and tons of people got seriously injured including broken ribs arms and legs. cody and i both came out fine after all of this but we now have a better respect for the homeless and have lost tons of weight. soon after we hopped a train to paris. i know it was reckless!! sorry!! dont be too mad!!!!!

... can explain the exact details but to shorten it up they wear the bull down by having several matadors, they then bring out a horse covered in cloth armor and the rider jabs a spear into the bulls neck two times, then 3 matadors let the bull charge them to only jump to the side at the last second and put 2 small pointed spears in it, finally the main matador comes out and the crowd goes wild. He lets the bull keep charging until the bull is wore down and he then gets his ...