Culture Vultures

Great to meet up with Murray after his US trip so now we have 5 days in Spain before seeing family and friends in the UK.
Spent the afternoon in the Guggenheim. We particularly liked the permanentLeia mais
Weirdest bridge ever

The Vizcaya Bridge connects the suburbs of Gexto and Portugalete. Built in 1893, it was the first metal transporter bridge. It is still in regular use with the gondola taking a maximum of 6 cars!
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Lekeitio

Picked up the rental car and did a day trip to San Sebastián. We took the minor roads and wiggled around the coast road.
Lots of small villages and we stopped in the very pretty fishing port ofLeia mais
San Sebestián

San Sebastián was full of red carpets, with film crews and journalists trying to jostle for the best position for the film festival!
Donostia is the local Basque name for San Sebastián and thereLeia mais
Santillana del Mar

Stopped here on our way to the
Picos de Europa. Main claim to fame is that it is a lovely medieval village and a short way out of town there is some prehistoric rock art. However it I found it tooLeia mais
Gawking at Gaudi

One of Antoni Gaudi’s early commissions was the 1883-85 construction of El Capricho, a holiday villa in Comillas for Maximo Diaz de Quijano, a wealthy lawyer.
It’s a small but comfortable houseLeia mais
Picos de Europa

As we headed towards Caín we drove along the western side of the Picos de Europa on a fabulous narrow and twisting road with sheer, overhanging cliffs on one side and a steep drop on the other.
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