Hotel Artea 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.

           

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 ...

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

... only look good. After our first night, we realized they sit out on the bar all day, so who knows how long they sit there. I had a horrible stomac ache after our first night... no wonder. For our second tapas experience, we ordered off the menu and we had Kanguroo Tacos and Shark. It was absolutely delicious.

As for ...

Day 4 of our trip.

We are staying in the old part of the city. Our hostel is so much smaller than the one in Madrid, and we scored a private room at a cheap price! It´s a nice place. The guy in charge is named Matt, from Australia, and he is super chill as well as a bit hard to understand.

Yesterday we went to one of the tall hills of the city called Monte Urgull. We hiked to the top where there is a giant ...

... And this was just the warm up ... Jaione informed us she had a special dinner she had worked on for us with her mother earlier in the week. A Basque specialty ... squid cooked in its own black ink! How cool is that?! Back we walked to their home, got the kids some of the best ice cream I've ever tasted, and then sat down to a treat of a home cooked Basque meal. Samuel tried it. Not his favorite, but he successfully downed the requisite one bite, albeit ...

... were wrong. The fog turned on and just got swept away by the wind, forming nothing at all but a cloud that caught unaware tourists in the face. There was nothing really left to explore of the museum because 90% of it was closed, so we left. We walked across the river to get a good picture of the building. Its a really cool building made up of titanium sheets and tan stone. There is not a single straight surface inside or outside of the building, only curved surfaces. We walked along ...

... of jumping off the top into the crowd. it was the best example of reckless craziness i have ever seen (much more so than the bulls) so naturally cody did it. we watched this for quite some time and by two or three were completely exhausted so headed to a nice sunny piece of park and took a nap. When we awoke later the party was still raging but cody and i nearing the end of our trip just dont have the same energy we used to, so we gathered some boxes (the lap of ...

... were gone by 2:30am so the rest of us folded the seats down and attempted to sleep. I did get a little sleep, but not much. I arrived in San Sebastian at 8am, dropped my stuff off at the hostel then went for a wander. I caught up on some sleep when I got back to the hostel. Went for a haircut, which is always an interesting experience when you don't speak the local language well. Anyway, I told the lady only a little off the top (un poco ...