Day 18 - Blogabond

Today is errand day. We need to try and locate our luggage that contains all of John’s clothes, contacts, and most of his pills. It isn’t looking like we will see the bags any time soon so we go off to do laundry and find John some contacts. We find a place that will do all the laundry for us for 9 euros. Things are looking up. We had a very good Chinese lunch, and found an eyeglass place that understood everything John said in Spanish and voila he had contacts and could now see his surroundings. Things were really looking up.

We next headed to the Chillida sculpture museum. He is one of the most famous sculptors in the world and certainly in Spain. He was from San Sebastian so he had a huge exhibit on an old farm just outside of town. We got there about an hour before it closed so we had to rush a little, but saw some beautiful sculpture and were almost completely alone. It was so cool we decided to stop in San Sebastian at the “Wind Combs” one his most famous works. They are three large metal sculptures placed on a point were the waves come crashing in to shore. There were several blow holes on the walkway out to the sculptures that would send a big blast of air and sometimes water up when a wave came in. Mark found that it was a great way to style his hair. Mark says the wind combs symbolize past, present, and the unknown future, they were one of the highlights of his whole trip, much better than the amusement park located next to our hotel. It was a very old amusement park that reminded me of what the Excelsior amusement park must have been like after its heyday. It was built around the old light house. Mark did think the “house of horrors” was pretty good. I thought it just smelled pretty horrible.

Now the boys were both soaked through so we went back to the hotel and had warm baths and Mark charmed the bartender into two very delicious hot chocolates. We got Mark fed and settled in to watch a movie and the rest of us went out for another try at Pinchas. It wasn’t nearly as crowded and we found many delectable treats and even tried the local hard cider that is poured from about 2 feet above the glass to aerate it. I think I still prefer Sangria. Some of our favorite tastes were the grilled, salted Guernica peppers, fresh sardines, black pudding with rice sausages, and coconut covered fried chicken. We meet a couple from Kentucky that reminded us of our friends Simon and Agnes. They had quit their jobs and were traveling around Europe. They were missing the VW bus with the nice wardrobe and shitty engine though.

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pscossette on July 5, 2007 from San Sebastian, Spain

from the travel blog: The Cossette Family Sabbatical

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