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ESP Granada – The City
Oct 18 – Nov 18, Kelly The best thing that we discovered upon our arrival to Granada, was that our apartment for the next four weeks was two floors above an incredible bakery, El Dulce Angel! Every day the 6’ x 6’ plate glass window displayed a new and different selection of incredible cakes, sky-high…
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ESP Toledo & Cordoba
October 15-17, Kelly We rented a car to get from San Sebastián to Granada, and decided to stop for a night each in Toledo and Cordoba. TOLEDO was the first stop and it looked exactly like a set from Game of Thrones. In the 3rd century the ROMANS built a palace in Toledo, and then…
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ESP San Sebastián – Best of!
10/15/202, Kelly Winding up our one month stay in San Sebastián, we feel it’s appropriate to commemorate our top things. TOP FOUR PINXTOS: [We could usually get two of these fabulous pinxtos and a glass of wine each for about ten bucks.] TOP FOUR ACTIVITIES: Runner Ups: Drinks at Urgulleko Polboriña bar at sunset on…
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ESP Jim’s 2 Cents – San Sebastián, Stripped Down
October 2022, Jim One odd aspect of San Sebastian’s great surf beach, Playa de Zurriola, “bares” mentioning: full nudity is permitted. And before I go into full complaint mode, let me clarify that the people taking part in this little exposé are not exactly Victoria’s Secret models. Or women. Or people who haven’t been retired…
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ESP San Sebastián – Day Trips, Zauratz & The Mouse
Sept/Oct 2022., Kelly GETARIA and ZAURATZ – A half hour bus ride west of San Sebastián brought us to the charming little fishing village of Getaria where we climbed a headland called El Raton (The Mouse) to take in the views. It seems like everywhere we go here, we climb up a hill to take…
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ESP San Sebastián – Day Trips, Hondarribia Uno & Deux
Sept/Oct 2022., Kelly HONDORRIBIA I – We took a half hour public bus ride east to this pristine, charming Basque fishing town. The Marina Neighborhood is where the fishermen lived for many centuries in their colorful painted homes, and you know we got some great seafood pinxtos there! The still-in-tact walled fortress section is a…
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ESP San Sebastián – Day Trips, The Camino de Santiago
Sept/Oct 2022., Kelly We were so happy with our little town of San Sebastián, that we only took four day trips into the surrounding Basque Country – and two of those were to the same place! The first one was a test drive for a future trip. A DAY ON THE CAMINO – A lot…
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ESP Jim’s 2 Cents – San Sebastián, Half Way
10/5/2022, San Sebastián Halfway through our month in San Sebastian, it’s time to evaluate how we might have benefited by taking crucial steps that others typically take before they travel internationally. Like planning, for example. But first, I gotta say San Sebastian has already become one of my favorite places in the world, and not…
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ESP San Sebastián – Rainy
9/23-9/30, San Sebastián, Kelly Our second week in this little coastal city was overcast and rainy. While the stormy seas didn’t seem to keep the locals off the beach, we decided to turn our exploring focus indoors, and inadvertently became more cultured for the experience! We went to a nearby museum housed in an old…
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ESP San Sebastián – Sunny
9/15-9/22, San Sebastián, Kelly Our first week in this little coastal city was sunny and warm. It’s honestly a little slice of heaven here in the Basque part of northern Spain: blue skies, the Bay of Biscay’s twinkling turquoise water, green hillsides, layers of mountains off in the distance. Of the two beaches, one has…
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