San Sebastian

After a lazy morning yesterday, we headed towards the train station, and headed towards San Sebastian. The train ride was a somewhat gruelling 8 hours, but with the aid of an ipod full of tv shows to watch, I was pretty comfortable. The thing with Spain, is that, comparative to other countries we´ve been through around Europe, they don´t cater very much for people who only speak English. Thus, ordering food yesterday on the train was a bit of pointing at the pictures and using the little Spanish I know. I think I´ve picked up Spanish a lot quicker than any of the other lanuages, purely because I´ve had to. I felt pretty awesome today when I had to order train tickets completely in Spanish, even if all I said was "Hola. Habla ingles?" and, ""Dos. 6th. Madrid. Gracias." which roughly translates to ""Hi. Do you speak English?", "Two. 6th. Madrid. Thankyou.". Haha, horrible.

Anyway, San Sebastian is really pretty, and reminds me a bit of Nice in France. The weather is a bit cooler than we had, somewhat carelessly, hoped for, but we´re going to try and swim at the beach tomorrow, regardless of the weather. The city is a bit smaller, only 100,000 or so, and it´s situated right on the coast, around two bays, and surrounded by a few mountains. It´s pretty cheap here at the moment, probably because it´s the middle of Autumn and it´s a coastal town, but we´re staying in what is called a Pension, which is essentially a budget hotel, but is costing us the same as what a hostel would. After sleeping in dorms for near on 4 months, staying here is pretty good, and all the small things like proper towels and so on is pretty luxurious to us.

We looked around town today, although there isn´t a great deal of sites so to speak, just a few cool viewpoints from up in the mountains, overlooking the city. We have two more nights here, and then head off to Madrid on Monday morning.



Train from Barcelona to San Sebastian














San Sebastian