Saturday, June 10, 2006

Yummy Spanish Food


San Sebastian was a great city. Its not a big city but a very nice one. Theres about 3 beaches along that line the northern coast of Spain. Its only a couple of hours from France. Theres also a great big statue of Jesus, kinda like in Rio but not as big on one hill on the coast. All the signs here are in Basque and in Castillian (Spanish). Most of the local speak mostly Basque and although they can all speak Castillian as well they vigourously try to preserve the Basque identity as well. If you like Sun and a nice calm beach this is the place.

We met Carlos through some friends and he said hed show us around San Sebastian. We were actually staying in Bilbao about an hour away so we drove over and went to have some pintxos (pronounced "pinchoes"). You just go into any of the many pubs in the area and eat these little snacky foods. And the food is great! You got dozens of things to choose from so you're bound to find something you like. You traditionally drink this alcoholic cider aswell. Its like apple cider but alcoholic. Very nice.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome view, yummy food and loads of it :) Hope you guys didn't eat ALL that food.

Anonymous said...

No wonder you came back with a belly!
Coops