Northern Espana

Our second to last weekend in Spain, we took a trip up north. Our scheduled trip was to visit Burgos, Bilbao and San Sebastian.  We stopped in Burgos first. We took a tour of the Cathedral there and then were given a couple hours to just chill.  It was such a beautiful day, so after napping by a river I decided to wander around by myself.

I ended up meeting Alejandro...had a nice conversation (in english) and then left him to continue on with life. Funny the random people you meet. 

We then ventured to the town of Bilbao, where we visited the Guggenheim Museum...when we got there we discovered that the Manchester United futbol team was there playing Atletico Bilbao...on top of that the team was staying in our hotel. So, of course, Lindsay, Chelsey and I being the dedicated soccer fans that we are, decided that we were going to try and scalp tickets and get into this game.  Unfortunately, any sane person would never give up a ticket to such an "important" game, so we were unable to succeed...but we did find a spot outside the gates that allowed us a small visual of the field...and we watch about 20 minutes of the game sitting on the beer/glass covered ground. 

The next morning we went to Guernica.  Yes, the same Guernica Picasso's piece of art is named after.  Let me tell you, after learning the history and all the background information of the painting, this place holds a whole new meaning for me.  We were able to visit the Peace Museum while we were there. Honestly, one of the most touching experiences I had while Spain. 

There was this insane graffiti wall! Our trio decided to go find it when we were given our free time and had a little photo shoot...I am not as photogenic as Linds and Chels, but I wanted to show just a tiny piece of the amazing graffiti art. 

So then...we're getting on the bus to venture to our next destination...when Lance and Jacqui inform us that we had extra funds and would be able to make another stop on the way to San Sebastian...they then told us we had four options we could choose from...to be honest, I don't really remember what the first three were. I wanna say something along the lines of visiting another cathedral, stopping somewhere a book was based on (I think I just made that up, but it was something like that) and then go to a McDonalds where we could find wifi and play some sort of video game...and then the final option was given. How about we go to the town of Biarritz, it's just a small town on the coast in Southern France. Needless to say, this was probably one of my favorite parts of my whole Spain experience. We kept singing the song You and I by Ingrid Michaelson...if you don't know why then listen to you it and you'll understand. It was so freaking beautiful! We got there and went to this amazing pasteria and then were given a little while to wander around. Definitely went straight to the beach. 

We weren't there very long, and we didn't get in the water...but Biarritz, France will forever hold a very special place in my heart.

We then went to our last stop of the trip, San Sebastian (located back in the great Country of Spain). We were just given the whole night free so once we got there we all split and wandered around. A couple of us went to this amazing Italian restaurant and rode a carousel and played on the beach a litte more. It was nice, not having any tours and just being able to wander around the last two towns we visited, doing whatever we wanted. 

This trip was such a fun one for us and will definitely go down as one of my favorites while in Spain.

~till next time

Chloe