SPAIN
Trip Start
Feb 28, 2008
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Trip End
Sep 28, 2008
Bilbao,
Basque,
Spain
Saturday, June 21, 2008
With countries now belonging to the EU no one is interested in passport control.
We decided to stay on the coast at San Sebastien which is a beautiful city on the water. we caught the bus into the city outside our hotel to begin discovering our first Spanish town.
The old section, where all the best food and bars are, have streets too narrow for cars. People were out everywhere walking talking drinking. We checked out a few bars and found one that looked loke it had great Tapas and set about working out how to order.
The selction is incredible and we found it so hard to choose everything from fish to meats, cheese, frittata, seafood and sardines
Architecture
.It cost us £10 ($16) for 5 things and a large glass of red wine.
21June was spent driving to Bilbao via Gernika which is the town on which Picasso based his painting Gernika. They have the most amazing Peace Museum which has been awarded a peace prize for it's work.
One thing we have discovered about spain, everything shuts between 2 & 4. So we have to plan to be either driving or eating at this time because there is absolutely nothing to do.
BILBAO This is the most incredible city and the main one I wanted to visit because of the Guggenheim Gallery. All along the river leading up to the museum are these amazing sculptures. The best being a huge spider that you can stand under and "Puppy" which is a huge dog at the entrance covered in flowers.
For me the Dali's were the highlight of the Guggenheim especially the clothes he designed with Schiaparelli and his jewllery.
The other highlight, apart from the food and wine, was the Belle D'Arte gallery with Spanish artists includinbg Goya.
We stayed 3 nights in Bilbao and caught the train to Portugalette to see the world heritage sight of the suspension bridge built in 1890.
