Ireland and Spain Summer 2024

We arrived to Bilbao late Monday night and on Tuesday morning immediately tackled the city through a 1.5 hours VoiceMap tour, which was quite interesting and gave us a great overview of this beautiful and fun city. It’s an incredible story of transformation - the city used to be gritty, poor and unsafe, especially through the 90s with the terrorist threats. It then undergone amazing transformation, starting with building the now world famous Guggenheim museum. We saw a beautiful indoor market, gorgeous opera theater, and walked through an old city with beautiful plazas. We also strolled along the river on the promenade and admired some very beautiful bridges. The city is very green and is an architecture marvel. We also sampled the world famous Basque cuisine, particularly Basque tapas which are called pinxtos (pronounced pinchos). We really loved the opportunity to create our own tasting menu through sampling many small morsels - mostly mini sandwiches that are just as delicious as stunning. True works of art. We finished the tour near the Guggenheim and experienced a real sense of awe over this glimmering titanium covered flying dream of a building.En savoir plus