San Sebastian

As our first week in Girona came to an end the fam and I rented a car and headed off to San Sebastian for a long weekend on the atlantic coast. We took a route through the france on the way to see some different scenery and another angle to the ever present mountain here. We arrived in San Sebastian late friday evening and after getting settled headed off to check out the famous San Sebastian tapas bars. They lived upto the expectation, some of the best and most nicely presented tapas I've seen yet. Saturday we headed off to Bilbao about an huor away and the capital of the basque country. There my dad and I registered for our ciclotourismo ride the next day (to be talked about later) and then we went to see the Guggenheim! It is the coolest building I have ever seen! The art inside is no comparison to the builing itself and its curves and titanium sheen. The inside is just as spectacular though I don't think I can really descride it to you well. So we headed back to San Sebastian for our dinner reservation at a Cideria in the hills outside the city. On a recomendation from Mr. Hynes and multiple guide books we thought this typical basque country affair would be worth checking out. Cidra is slightly alcohlic and bitter cider which they serve freely at the ciderias along with a multiple course meal. The huge vats (i don't think thats the right word) anyway the big round things they store the cider in are a site in themselves and the food was supurb, though I'm not a huge fan of the cidra. After an getting a good nights sleep my dad and I headed off Sunday for Bilbao-Bilbao's ciclotourismo tour.......