Month: November 2016
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The Incomparable Guggenheim Bilbao
While visiting Donostia-San Sebastián, we took a day-trip to see the incomparable Guggenheim museum in nearby Bilbao. The express bus route between the two cities is well-run, frequent and comfortable. Much of what we have written below came from the official web site. A model of the building in the museum When the Guggenheim Museum…
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Postcards from Donostia-San Sebastián waterfront
We went to Donostia-San Sebastián in early June. It is the European Capital of Culture for 2016. Historically, it is a resort town, located in the Basque Autonomous Community, an area with its own local language – Euskara (basque in basque) – apparently unrelated to any other languages in Europe. For several days, the sky was…