Same Shirt, Different day-2012 Adventures of the "Devonport Wonder Babes"

Wednesday 3 October 2012 San Sebastian Spain

Beautiful sunny day after low temperatures initially.  URTI is still lurking so slow start to the day. Breakfast in room with muesli, fruit and UHT milk, more chores then left hotel about 10.30 am. Took #13 bus to old city and visited the daily food markets first. Good selection of meats, fish (many completely unknown to us), fruits and vegetables.

Wandered there for about 40 minutes looking at the displays, frequently no idea what we were looking at. Cheerful serving people and cheerful customers.

Also continuing a theme, I saw a new version of an electric bicycle and electric scooters in shop here.

Then headed around back of old city  and along the breakwater which has massive granite blocks along it plus some other intersting things like the wall of a carparking building.

Then continued up towards the top of Monte Urgull Mendia which was quite a stretch and needed a few stops on the way. But there were fantastic panoramic views from the top all around the city plus a place to sit and read the newspaper.

Headed down around the point and had lunch about 2 pm at Ristuarante  iGeldo overlooking the small fishing port and marina. Our budget only ran to starters and even that was a bit expensive, even have to pay for bread separately here !!,  Lynds had fish soup which was delicious, good rich fish stock flavour  and I had fried squid, possibly the best I have ever eaten. Some nearby tables had freshly cooked paella with glistening rice and heaps of prawns etc.

Also further outstanding clothes line.

 

Continued back through old city and stopped at Lidl supermarket which was next to food markets and collected veges for dinner tonight plus fruit, milk and yoghurt for breakfast tomorrow.

Then down past surf beach with lots of topless women sunbathing, to end of beach where we sat and watched guys with boogie boards dice with death in the form of the rocks nearby. Would have stayed longer but dearth of public toilets in this town (well beach ones now closed as season has ended –very strange ) meant needed to return to hotel.

At 4pm back to hotel for sleep and then sat downstairs for an hour or so with nice coffee, Lynds checking out on iPad  info re our next stop in Navarrenx back in France next week  and me finishing yesterday’s Herald Tribune.

Salad again for dinner with some hazel nuts from S’Eufemia,  freshly shelled plus the bottle of Vignvecchia Chianti Classico given to us in Radda in Italy several weeks ago, some blogging and bed relatively early. Still a bit of a cough.