Bilbao - Guggenheim

I had seen the beautiful Guggenheim museum during my exchange to Bilbao more than 10 years ago. But none of us four had ever been inside!

Since mom still couldn't walk properly, dad fixed a wheelchair for her. Instead of this making our visit harder it made it a lot of fun! Especially the beautiful steel art work with its narrow passages. We saw a lot of interesting artwork, but I'm still not convinced, purely my opinion, whether the art can live up to the standard set by the building itself and the art outside. Any different opinions?

14 augustus - 16 augustus Santurtzi
It takes us about a day to get from Bermeo to Santurtzi, a harbour where we can again, this time legally, stay for free and even for two nights (yes we're still Dutch and even worse Dutch and on a budget💸). It is also our last evening with my parents. We decide to meet up in the old town of Bilbao. We can take the metro and they can take a tram. We still try to minimize the amount of walking for mom. The old center is beautiful and quite busy since the Basque are preparing for another week of parties, this time in Bilbao. We conclude our time together with a great meal and more good conversations. I has been very nice to have them around. Not just to show them our lives, but mostly to talk to them about the ups and especially the downs. They have helped us a lot to rethink our next steps. Not only how we can mentally develop ourselves to enjoy our travel more so, but also rethink where we want to go the next couple of months and maybe even year. Maybe we will cross to Suriname this winter, maybe we will next winter, maybe we won't. We don't know yet and we don't have to know yet. Even more so, we don't "have to" anything.Read more