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Bilbao birthday evening out

04/05/2025

We had made a reservation, as I mentioned at Serrantes III but since there was a football match, and we'd already been there, we decided to go out for pintxos, the northern spain version of tapas, in the old square in the Casco Viejo.  It was fun, though a number of places were closed, a couple were formal and didn't want dogs, but there were a number where the food was good and, as usual, we met people and had a good craic with waiters, passers-by, other customers and, indeed, all and sundry.

We have no pictures of the hotel we stayed at, though it was very pleasant.  I have three memories of the hotel, other than the nice staff:

  • having a really interesting conversation with one of the waiters who turned out to have a degree in Linguistics
  • Pippa being given a birthday gift by the hotel, a bottle in an ice bucket nicely wrapped, a bottle of water!
  • Getting to know the night porter because of Sam having a poorly tummy and getting up 5 times in the night to wander the park where you see the palm trees in the slides.
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France again

05/05/2025

We're off again, Sam is waiting for the luggage to be packed, he's recovered from his sleepless night, as have I, and we're off to cross the border into France and start our slow move northwards.  We'll stop at Saint-Jean-de-Luz for lunch and then onwards to Bergerac for dinner and a hotel, though we don't know that yet; it's all improvised, made up as we go along.