San Mames Bilbao

Our final day, and from Madrid it was off to Bilbao and the Guggenheim, followed by a night encamped at the ferry port.... Lym was STILL cooking, folks, even sat on the concrete of the ferry port... as our posh caravan neighbours came out in the morning to wish us good morning, shaking out their table cloth ...

... pincho that Paul had and a (believe it or not) anchovy/cod concoction on bread that I had. I’ve really been venturing out on the fish thing this trip. I even had cod for lunch!!

Tomorrow we leave Bilbao for a hotel a bit in from the coast into the Picos de Europa, a beautiful, mountainous area. We should be in by late afternoon. Look for photos of the coast and the mountains next.

Cheers!

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.

Hotel Information

Hotel Centro Bilbao

What a ride, 36 hour´s on the "Pride of Bilbao" with a bunch of drunken English people (you know which ones Grey hair, tat´s on there arms, pale, drunk at 10 in the morning etc) and with no where to escape to... When we finally made it to Bilbao and the bus station, escaping the yobboes, we were really impressed, a huge, imposing building, but you needed tickets before you got into it, oh wait no apparently that was the local ...

Urghh long, long bus journey from Valencia. Sleeping tablets helped, but what didn't were the rude Spanish couple behind us who persisted on banging on the back of our seats all journey. They seemed angry that we were using the recline function which we had paid, and were entitled to use...

Anyway, arrive at about 8 or something where we got ...

... to Janice that I miss Inigo and Jaione. Before she can respond, from the back seat, Samuel chimes in, "I miss them too..." (we thought he was asleep!). Janice agrees ... it was really fun hanging with those guys. We pull in to the familiar gravel driveway of our Pie de Concha home and after lugging in our bags, I see Samuel with a huge grin on his face snuggling on the sofa by himself ... and he says, "It feels really good to be home." I couldn't have said it better myself.

... on Sundays. Therefore, a lot of our friends were left starving looking for somewhere to eat. I went to class today, and am resting my ankle this evening. It looks a lot better, but it is bruised more than I expected. I hope to try and surf again by Wednesday. I also have some pictures but forgot to save them to my jump drive. I will try to post them on this blog tomorrow. Sorry this is so long. Hope you enjoy! Love, Keshia

the bus ride to Bilbao was beautiful yesterday. we had a little trouble getting tickets for the bus, no one speaks any English here unlike in the other countries but we are managing. the bus ride had lots of big green hills/mountains and bridges going over deep valleys/crevices. we had a little trouble finding our hotel (bad directions and a mislabeled map) but we finally dropped out stuff off and met up with Jeff and Cayla in front of the Guggenheim ...

The heart of the Basque country, Bilbao, is in stark contrast to San Sebastian. I found few redeeming features about it apart from the old town, the Guggenheim Museum and the public transport system. (You know you're really stretching for compliments when you comment on public transport.) Fortunately I had been advised that there wasn't much here so I only planned for a one-night stopover on my way to Santander. Basques ...