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First dinner
A cute little restaurant where we ate sandwhiches Day 1: San Sebastian
Well, on my last journey to Spain for a while, it is going well yet again! There is something to be said about going to a place you already know. After a two hour delay of my flight, I made it to Madrid and went straight to the hotel to grab my girl Summer and then we headed to the bus station to grab our tickets and head our way to San Sebastian in Basque Country.
It took about 6 hours on bus to head up to San Sebastian. Basque country is different than the rest of Spain, it is quite picturesque. For those who do not know, Basque country has its own language, though they still speak Spanish (Castellano). Much of Spain sort of has autonomous regions, and the Basques are no exception, but I love the area and the differences. The language is written all over the place, but it adds to the culture.
Our first night here we came to our hostel (Pension Adore). It overlooks the
Plaza de la Constitución which sort of looks like
Plaza Mayor in Madrid. It is run by this little old couple that doesn’t
my sandwhich
a tortilla espanola with crab...yummy seem to want to do too much. They give us a key that lets us in the entire building, so they never have to open it. On the door of our room it says that check out is between 10-12, and if you want to check out before 10 to pay the night before. They really don’t ever like being around. It is sort of comical.
We walked around San Sebastian a little bit that first night, but mostly just walked to go and eat. I ate this
tortilla española (sort of potato omelet) with crab mixed in, it was delicious! Who would have thought? We returned to the room and I crashed, until 9 am, thank goodness!
Today we just explored the city. It is quite chilly here during June, but I advise wearing layers as the temperature changes depending on whether or not the sun is shining. We walked around the beautiful beach. The homes are so old and still look like the old fishing community San Sebastian once was. It is pretty neat. Summer and I went on and bought our tickets for our trip down to Granada on Saturday (a 12 hour bus ride…ugh).
dessert
blueberry cheesecake with chocolate... delicious. We did a little window shopping, grabbed a cup of
café con leche, took a
siesta (although, it doesn’t seem as big a deal here as it does in Southern Spain), and just sort of dabbled around the city a little. Sometimes it is nice to just soak in the scenery and know you are in a foreign country.
We did go out for
pinxtos which are the Basque version of
tapas. They are served a little different here. Rather than having a waiter serve them to you, you can actually grab a plate and put the ones you see out on your dish for you. We didn’t know this at first, and were very confused waiting for the bartender to come to our table like we have been used to down in Southern Spain, and then we observed what others were doing. The longer we stayed, the more we realized it was the one bar tender working the entire bar – so no wonder he would have us just grab what we wanted. We would then pay what we wanted. We had some quality food and a couple drinks for about $7 a piece. You just can’t get
sites in the city
some buildings that i thought were neat. that in the states! It is wonderful. One of my favorites was goat cheese heated up and spread on bread (Mom, you have to warm up the Goat cheese a bit and see how that is on your crackers, so much nicer than the solid form).
Well, I am not sure what Friday will bring. I have a feeling we are just going to take it easy and relax in this beach town before we head down to start our studies. Who knows. Maybe we will have a little adventure or two!
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Lori Hays
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Goat Cheese
OK. How weird is it that 2 weeks after, "Leah, you have to try this. It's Goat Cheese", you'd be in Spain eating it? And warmed up no less. I gotta try it now. I think I'll put it under the broiler. Thanks!