Road Trip part 2



San Sebastian coastline



Ahh now what i forgot to mention was that the bus we randomly chose to get to Santander turned out to be a pleasant suprise, recliner leather seats, movies, and even a hostess who offered drinks, sandwiches and nuts FOR FREE! ohh we were quite happy on this trip! The plan was to rough it on this trip, sleeping in bus/train stations or on benches.. we were going to buy a pop up tent and just place it where ever we felt fit yeah that didnt happen! instead we got a luxury bus.. but in our defence we didnt even know we just got the first available time.

However after our short time of being comfortable we arrived in Santander and the weather still hadn't cleared up. And what made it worse was that we walked around in circles trying to locate our hostel. Yeah and turned out that our area whas quite getto which was interesting. Our Hostel was more like a hotel where we couldnt meet anyone and the reception guy couldnt really help us out with any bars to go to so we just stayed in and watched movies. 

The following day we were fresh and ready to go exploring however after breakfast i fell asleep for another hour while Yvi watched cartoons and night rider. Ahh and then afterwards i was told that i was purring and mumbling in my sleep.. hmm interesting!

So we ventured out and luckily the weather had cleared up! yeah but Santander just didnt do it for us. Though we saw an interesting boat parade where un monton of boats, dingies, and ferries were all decked out in world flags, honking their horns, driving stupidly all over the place. 

Besides the beach i must say there isnt really much in Santander except a very strong patriotism the buildings had flags everywhere.

Later that day we moved on to the next stop BILBAO! oo and this one was pretty. The hostel we stayed in was just great we had a view in front of the river and the Guggenheim Museum which i must say is the weirdest looking building i have ever seen.



This was our view


That night we met some guys in our hostel ahh yes and of course an Australian, a Kiwi and another two English guys and a dutch girl. While yvi and i polished off a bottle of vodka we drew some interesting caricatures of all our friends. Then we convinced them all to come out to a bar.. and that followed on to a club. HA and of course it started raining half way there. In order to find a club we asked a guy who looked about 12 where to go and he led us there. and oh boy it was SHIT! For a Saturday night it was deserted! So after 30mins Yvi wanted a smoke (chain smoker) and we decided to venture the streets for a bit.. but we ended back in the club about 40mins later. The club was no better. But our hostel buddies were now drunk and had been having a great time with a hens party that was there. Hillarious!
 We got to sleep about 4- 4:30 so it wasnt too late we were quite happy with that.. we could have a little sleep time!
Oh and we wished we never woke up .. the hangover was torture! To add to our pain the weather was cold and rainy (and stupidly i didnt pack any kind of jumper or long pants .. woops so i scabed clothing from Yvi). We were quite grumpy. Though we did our sight seeing for as long as our heads could handle.. we were at the point of laughing at everything and making the stupidest and retarded comments. Another attempt of eating great food once again failed ... Burger King oh geeez. But it was just what the hangover ordered. We also weren't too suprised to find all customers eating there were Americans.. shocking get some tastebuds people!
 As the weather just got worse we bailed from Bilbao and moved on to the next stop... San Sebastian! The bad weather followed us.


We highly indulged in the pintxos

 But we were determined to do some sightseeing and eat some awesome food! Finally it was a success.  San Seb is packed with small Pintxo bars (Pint-cho) where a similar concept as sushi trains occurrs, you pay for the amount of toothpick meals you have. Usually bits of bread with crap on the top (meat, cheese, veggies, seafood, tortilla and of course OIL). We had this for lunch and dinner and then a second dinner. yummm. San sebastian has a really beautiful coastline with good surf and a really great old town. I really loved it!




The old town is really pretty.  Literally it is just full of tiny restaurants, bars and ice cream
stores! It hasnt become commercialised .. yet.

The hostel we stayed in was quite funny it is just an apartment where this old lives. And surprise surprise there were all Australians staying in the hostel. Yvi was soooo happy. well at least when she was bragging about hamburg she was happy. Germans!

As the weather was just shit, rainy, and a tad windy and we were already tired and hungover we got the brilliant idea of going to see the new HArry potter. After getting all excited and standing in the line for about 20mins we were harshly let down because the movie was in Spanish and yeah unfortunately our spanish is not good enough to get through that and our brains were hurting enough at that point. So long story short no harry. Instead we settled for lollies and then i got sick from them.