Zenit Bilbao

... 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.

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Hotel Centro Bilbao

Theres one reason why most tourists come here. The Guggenheim Museum. And unlike most museums they come to see the building itself rather than the contents. The Frank Gehry designed building is well worth it too, an extraordinary sculpture of a building that truly is world class piece of art itself. I like it, but I wasn't too impressed by many of the contents. I liked the impressionist and the expressionist ...

... we´ll be WWOOFing), but to no avail. So we got some delicious tapas, the comida tipica in Basque country, and hunkered down to solve our dilemma of getting us and our bikes over half way across the country in order to stay on schedule. It was a challenging one that included four hours in an internet cafe, some fairly brusque phone conversations in Spanish and possibly some tears in the streets of a bustling San Sebastian.

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... 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.

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 ...

... wake up ready to go ... and Samuel and Ella are both very excited about visiting the Guggenheim today (which is really cool to me!). Janice heads out with the kids while I get showered up, and they stop for some fresh fruit. Its so good that they eat it all before they get back to the hotel! The punks! : ) Janice also gets some toys for the kids, a jump rope for Sam (who has been itching to practice since his record 14 consecutive jumps last week) and a sticker ...

... met them at our hotel and then we all walked over to the Guggenheim. What an interesting place! There´s a massive dog made entirely of begonias in front, created for a special festival and supposedly put there temporarily, but the Bilbonians (or whatever they call themselves) fell in love with their puppy so they decided to build it a kennel....and that´s how we got the Guggenheim....or so the story goes.... Ya, so anyway....the Gug is a massive structure of ...

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 ...

Bilbao is supposedly the largest Basque City with ambitious urban renewal plans. The metro, newly built when I was there, was impressive to say the least. More impressive was the Museo Guggenheim, which was what brought me out there in the first place. They also have an impressive Museo de Bellas Artes just down the road from the Guggenheim. Other than that, there isn't really much to see if Bilbao. Then again, visiting the Guggenheim alone was worth it. Although we had 2 nights at ...