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- Sep 23, 2018
- ☀️ 24 °C
- Altitude: 34 m
- Spain Basque Country Bilbao Plaza Nueva 43.259007, -2.9226243°15’32” N 2°55’21” W
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Culture Vultures
September 23, 2018 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
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 permanent exhibition of Richard Serra’s gargantuan weathered steel elipses. It’s hard to describe but an amazing feat of engineering as the walls lean and straighten forming curving walls; they reverse their curvature, bulging and then receding. They are completely self supporting - nothing supports them but their own weight. Given their dimensions this seems almost impossible!Read more
Interesting but not sure about the coloured window from the inside!
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Yes Amazing but seems impossible....
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- Sep 24, 2018
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Altitude: 9 m
- Spain Basque Country Portugalete Bizkaia zubia / Puente Bizkaia 43.323109, -3.01735943°19’23” N 3°1’2” W
Day 2
Weirdest bridge ever
September 24, 2018 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
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!

You could walk across the top of the structure but after looking at it we chickened out and simply paid .40c to be a regular passenger.Read more
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- Sep 25, 2018, 10:00am
- ☀️ 12 °C
- Altitude: 17 m
- Spain Basque Country Lekeitio Garraitz (San Nikolas)43.368275, -2.50394543°22’6” N 2°30’14” W
Day 3
Lekeitio
September 25, 2018 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
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 of Lekeitio. They have a 3-4m variation of tides here so it was interesting to see how they anchored the boats to allow for that rise and fall.Read more
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- Sep 25, 2018, 3:00pm
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Altitude: 11 m
- Spain Basque Country San Sebastián Alderdieder Plaza de la Constitución 43.327034, -1.98518143°19’37” N 1°59’7” W
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San Sebestián
September 25, 2018 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
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 there was an interesting bit of sand art celebrating this.

Fun Fact: A number appears above each window that overlooks the Plaza de la Constitución. This dates back to when the square was used as a bullring, with numbered spectator boxes available to rent.Read more
Traveler The fun fact is so interesting
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Yes interesting
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- Sep 26, 2018, 10:00am
- ☀️ 13 °C
- Altitude: 82 m
- Spain Cantabria Santillana 43.388958, -4.10905143°23’20” N 4°6’33” W
Day 4
Santillana del Mar
September 26, 2018 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
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 too cutesy and tourism driven.

What was more interesting is that the place is also known as the village of 3 lies. It is not holy (santi), flat (llana) or by the sea (del mar)!Read more
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- Sep 26, 2018, 2:00pm
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 25 m
- Spain Cantabria Comillas Fuente Tres Caños 43.385636, -4.29150743°23’8” N 4°17’29” W
Day 4
Gawking at Gaudi
September 26, 2018 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
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 house with each room displaying whimsical design features that related to the clients interests of music, botany & literature.

Fun Fact: Quijano only spent 7 nights in El Capricho as he died of liver failure in his new bedroom just before the building was completed.Read more
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- Sep 27, 2018
- ⛅ 24 °C
- Altitude: 461 m
- Spain Castille and León Posada de Valdeón Caín 43.213512, -4.90489443°12’49” N 4°54’18” W
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Picos de Europa
September 27, 2018 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
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.

We stopped at various lookouts but it was hard to capture the true essence of the Picos in a photo.

The minuscule hamlet of Caín de Valdeón was our overnight accommodation and the starting point of a fantastic walk down the Cares Gorge.

It was a good path, as long as you were OK with heights as there were sheer drops alongside the path for most of the way. Loved it!Read more
Traveler Great photographs
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Traveler A great read with fascinating stories ... thank you for sharing ❤️🌹
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Nice!
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