Day Trip to Spain

Buenas noches. At least it’s noches here. Not sure what it is where you are or when you’re reading this. Today (Friday) we drove about 35 miles west to the beach resort town of Donastia-San Sebastian, Spain. We had originally planned to spend several nights here and decided to do it as a day trip instead.

Just like the last few days, it started off cloudy then later in the afternoon the sun came out. But even cloudy, it’s a beautiful city. We started with a walk along the beach where there were quite a few people surfing. Or, trying to surf. The waves weren’t very high.

Then we headed to Tourist Info to figure out what we were going to do. On our way we saw…

No one is certain how old the city is, but the first record is from the early 11th century. The medieval city burned down in 1489 and the cathedral wasn’t built until the late 19th century.

After getting a map from tourist info, we wandered the Old City for a little while looking for a place for a quick lunch. Most restaurants were serving big meals, but we finally found a bar serving small bites.

Peter had a potato omelet that he said was delicious.

I had a couple of Pintxos which are Basque tapas. The biggest difference between them is that tapas is free with drinks, and I had to pay for the Pintxos.

After our quick snack we headed over to the Petite Train, which allowed us to see more of the city than we could have by foot. On our way we found a few interesting photo ops.

A sand artist was busy on the beach.

After the train ride, we headed back to the car, stopping for a snack.

This was the view that came with our tasty treats.

Tourist info said that if we drove to the top of the mountain, we’d have a pretty view of the bay. We didn’t but here’s what it would have looked like.

We only stayed for about 5 hours, but we thoroughly enjoyed our time in Spain. Tomorrow, we head about 3 hours east to Lourdes, where the peasant girl, Bernadette saw the Virgin Mary in the grotto. That will be our home for the weekend.