Adventures in San Sebastian

I loved San Sebastian - it definitely lived up to the hype and we had an awesome time. Between the beach and the food, I pretty much didn't want to leave. Best of all, I knew Kevin wouldn't be a hard sell to stay a little longer... like the rest of the month, haha! Unfortunately, we were scheduled to leave on the Friday of a 3 day weekend. Sadly, there were no rooms in the city for Saturday night and we were forced to move on. We will return for sure.

The views were so beautiful that we did a lot of climbing and walking, the perfect recipe for great afternoon naps and late nights out eating pintxos. Food food food - more on this later - this post was supposed to be the adventure post.


We walked out to see Eduardo Chillida's El Peine del Viento (Wind Comb) Sculptures and I took a nap . . . I mean courageously climbed up there


Kev contemplated the sea


We braved seeing guys in tiny bathing suits play paddle ball against the sea wall


FINALLY got to go on a funicular that led to the top of Monte Igueldo - to quite possibly the cutest fun park / castle tower with the nicest views ever - seriously, the tower bills itself as the "best view in the world". The park was closed for the Winter, but fun to explore anyway.


The Mysterious River - a tiny little lazy river type ride that happened to go right along the edge of the cliff

Too adorable - I will be coming back in Summer specifically to try out this one. The bumper boat pond was also filled with goldfish that we suspect didn't make it home after being won at a carnival game. Some of them were getting pretty huge.


On the way home, we ended up with steps that plunged directly into the ocean since the tide had come in while we were on the other side! The guy behind me here looks like he's walking on water, but it's more like pointy sideways rocks that were about 2 1/2 feet tall and lead through the deepest part. When the rocks ended the water was still almost past my knees.

The local ladies had turned the (now fairly useless) stairs into a swimming platform and were slowly lowering themselves into the icy water.


The stairs are on the far side, about middle - and had easily 10 - 15 ft of beach around them when we walked to the other side . . . Strangely, this was also the day they fired that thing at the moon - had the moon exploded or something there probably would have been no tide (or a giant tidal wave? please post any theories or scientific knowledge you may have re: potential moon explosion after effects in the comments)



On a side note, I can't believe we'll be back in San Diego in about 2 1/2 weeks! How exciting!