Anyway, Carolyn is a coworker of Greg's and is living in Spain for about 3 months, she has a friend who lives in Pamplona so we decided we'd take a weekend trip to go visit. We stopped in Bilbao overnight (about 3 hours east of Gijon), and it's actually in the Basque country, and the language there is crazy, there were so many z's and u's and k's. I had no idea what we were getting into but it was awesome! About 20 years ago it was considered the ugliest city in the north, and they've done a lot of work to it, and it shows-it was beautiful!! They even have a Guggenheim museum, which are also found in: Venice, Berlin, and New York. And the weather was fantastic, we had a wonderful time visiting the museum and walking through the city.
A view of Bilbao's river walk, from a pedestrian bridge (you can see part of the Guggenheim in the backround):
The oh-so-cool Guggenheim museum:
Are we still in Spain? What in the world is this language...!
Saturday night we drove to Pamplona and met up with Carolyn's friend Roberto and his girlfriend Helena. Carolyn and Roberto volunteered together in Thailand a few years ago. Anyway-we took a quick tour of the city, it's pretty small, and watched the end of a sport they play there, it's called Pala and it's almost like Raquetball, wall ball, and tennis all got smashed together. Then we ate a very Spanish dinner (super late, I could barely keep my eyes open!). Sunday we took a tour of the city in the daylight, and it's really cool. It's a medieval town and so it's surrounded by these huge walls, and they've put in an elevator that takes you up into the town through the wall, it's pretty neat. We walked along the path where the running of the bulls takes place, and we had coffee in the plaza where Ernest Hemingway would stay when he visited the city.
The elevator that takes you up through the wall:
A statue commemorating the running of the bulls:
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