Tag: spain
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Inside the Guggenheim Bilbao
This blog posts will cover what we saw inside the Guggenheim museum Bilbao. An earlier post talked about the outside, click here to read. Here is another view of the Simpson-ish model of the building. Let’s take a look around inside. There is a normal-looking, rather warm and cozy, education center. A cafe with a giant…
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San Sebastián food diary: Va Bene
San Sebastián-Donostia is well known for its collection of Michelin-star restaurants (at least 16 stars in one city, just behind Kyoto – see our visit to Arzak here). It also has a fair share of popular fun restaurant such as Va Bene, just a couple of blocks from where we were staying. It’s a burger…
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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…
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El Asador de Aranda, Madrid
After all that Russian art that came before this post, we thought a post about a hearty meal is apt. El Asador de Aranda is a chain of steakhouse in Spain that are well-known for their suckling lamb roasted in clay oven. We went to the one in downtown Madrid on Calle de Preciados. Given…