Blogs from San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, Europe - page 28

That is the one word that comes to mind when I want to try to describe San Sebastian. We pulled in via bus around 3 in the afternoon yesterday...San Sebastian is a smaller town, about 180,000 people, nestled against small mountains that tower over the Cantabrian Sea...our hostel is amazing, a small historic house owned by VIrginia who is one of the most welcoming and comforting women we´ve met thus far...feels like home, comfy beds, lots of little nooks and crannies to journal, balconies overlooking a school yard where spanish children are laughing and playing football and raquetbal...when we arrived it was raining. IN fact one of my favorite things about yesterday was falling asleep to the rhythm of the rain, reminded me of the Pacific Northwest. THis morning we woke up to completely blue skies...Blair, ... read more

Hello Reader. The trip up to San Sebastian, a city near the French Boarder on the Northern coast of Spain, was to take eight hours by bus. Mike slept most of the way, I was up for a while. We arrived at seven in the morning and realized that we had no idea where to go. We had made reservations at a hostel called 'Olga's Place' but had not printed out any directions or anything. Luckily we found a blonde girl named Jess from Australia looking for the same hostel so we meandered our way alongside the river and found it. Raphael, partial owner (along with Olga who was out of town) showed the three of us into the hostel. Even though it was so early, he let us sleep right away and we woke up ... read more

After arriving in Valladolid by Ryanair from Brussels we got our rented car for a week. To see some of the Provence NAVARRA After an easy three hours driving on the highway we arrived in Tudela, a small city on the pelgrim route to Santiago de Compostella. Tudela is one of those typical spanish places, but just half an hour away you have the feeling of finding yourself walking on the moon in 'Las Barnedas Reales'. Several movies are shot here like:........ The provence of Navarra is know for its many kingdoms. The small towns in the region all have a castle and city walls. We walked the famous route from the cathedral to the pamplona stadion (as they do during the famous bull running week). We felt the great spanish athmosfpere of having some tapas ... read more

only had 2 nights in madrid but managed to fit quite a lot in. had great fun. i was a bit wary of madrid as i had been warned that it wasn't a very attractive city and the best place was the train station. i don't agree at all. madrid is really a beautiful place with magnificent architecture and wide paved streets. i really liked the city. i wish i had a bit more time there, but oh well. i got there on tuesday night and went out on the town. had a great time with the girls that we've been hanging out with for about 2 weeks who had arrived in madrid a few days before us. wednesday i went sightseeing on my own. went to the palace and wandered around the streets. palace was ... read more

Egg No. 1 here. The title of this blog is as far as my understanding of Euskara extends I'm afraid - I think it means "Good morning, San Sebastian!" in Basque - but it may not, so my apologies to the vast swathes of Basques who - I'm sure - read this blog. Either way it makes little difference since, by the time we managed to find our way out of Pamplona towards the Basque Country it was very much no longer morning at all. Since most visitors to Pamplona are chased out of town by a herd of bulls, maybe the town council there have decided that, really, there's no need for road signs at all. It only took us about an hour of trying out every road in Pamplona - between the near-death experience ... read more