Blogs from San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, Europe - page 10

After a wonderful first week of our holidays we moved on to our second base in Parentis en Born, which is on the West Coast of France not far from Bordeaux. It was a fair drive to get from our first base to here, in fact I drove over 2400 KM’s on this holiday and loved every minute of it, I’ve driven all over Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Spain and France and always enjoy it. I very rarely drive at home, we have one car that I pay for, put petrol in, clean and maintain but Fiona drives it… to be fair she needs it for the kids and other than a wee drive at the weekends sometimes I’m very rarely behind the wheel so look forward to getting out and about on our holidays, it ... read more

¡San Sebastián! "Weekend Warrior: A person who holds a regular job during the week which restricts his/her ability to party/go on trips/partake in awesome activities, and thus plans epic weekend adventures to compensate. As much variation and quantity of awesomeness is packed into the weekends as physically possible, warranting the rest of the work week to recharge for the next weekend. These people are notorious for staying up until sunrise and wearing the same clothes into the next day. They only qualify if he/she parties on all nights of the weekend - no days off - This requires much will power and obedience." -Urbandictionary.com Yet another whirlwind adventure! Started the weekend early and took the midnight train to San Sebastián on Thursday. It w... read more

Monday 11th October to Sunday 17th October 2010 Monday 11th Oct 2010 Into Donostia-SanSebastian by bus along narrow cliff road. Had to come to a sudden stop only once. Into tourist office and we were given a map in English - not much information on it. Looked and asked around for a post office - gave up. Went into the Kursaal Building - very contemporary. The sides of the building are made to look like a Roman Blind - photos of it at night look good. Then around town and back to Tourist information office to get direction to post office. We had actually walked past it twice as there are no signs outside - it’s an old heritage building and the call it ‘Correos’ -meaning post office . Then to Vodafone for dongal for internet ... read more

I love it here in San Sebastian. The weather isn't brilliant as we have gone north again to the Bay of Biscay near the Atlantic Ocean. It's not raining though so we are lucky as apparently it rains here for more than 200 days each year. We are staying in the old part of town which is charming and full of character. There are lots and lots of bars here which have heaps of variety of tapas that sit on the bar, you just choose what you want and pay for them, very civilized. There are heaps of people in the bars who are all very friendly even if we can't understand them. Everything here is in 2 languages, Spanish and Basque so Em and I have no idea what anyone is saying and we don't ... read more

A few weekends ago my roommate, her friend Margarita, and I went on a day trip to San Sebastián, a town north of Pamplona in a different province called País Vasco, or Basque Country. It's a beautiful city, and a little bit bigger than Pamplona, but we decided to just go for the day and spend the day on the beach. The trip started off a little bit rough. Margarita and my roommate, Estela, ordered the tickets and we had some communication issues with the woman working the desk, because all three of us were trying to explain in jumbled Spanish. It resulted in purchasing the tickets, but we were directed to the wrong terminal, and almost missed our bus! But we found it eventually and enjoyed a quiet ride through the mountains and some really ... read more