San Sebastian (May 25 2005)

We arrived in the morning and despite having spent less than 24 hours with us, it was clear Ben was not keen on traveling much further with us. But he reluctantly followed along for some reason.

While waiting for Ben to buy a guitar in a music shop, I wandered around and saw that some of the rooftops had full out lawns and trees on 'em. Interestingly, they did not have shingles on the ground. Opposite land indeed.






I missed a great shot of the kid crying and curled up on the steps. Dunno what the fuss was about, but it was loud.



The cut-off jean shorts are the next throwback style. I'm calling it now for Summer '06.



After walking around the city, Hal and I climbed Urgull mountain cause it seemed like the thing to do, and I figured, "hey, my calves are fine now; i should climb more mountains."
There's a statue of Jesus at the top. This is that statue as you may have guessed.



The north of Spain/south of France region is Basque Country. It's easy to forget the differences between Basque and Spanish (or rather: Castilian, Catalan, Galacian...), but there are subtle reminders that linger about.


At the end of the day we headed for our last couchette ride of the trip, en route to Madrid.

about Spain, from Canada