GG & San Sebastian

The learning of today happened in the evening on the Bus from Bilbao to San Sebastian. I boarded the bus next to the Stadium in Bilbao (AC Bilbao) at 6 and was on my way to San Sebastian. I had the Streber-Seat right behind the driver and so got all the action directly. The bus driver was pretty cool, he was listening to the radio all the time, driving above speed limits and between the lanes - very Italian actually (ok, like Italians in Germany actually ...) anyway - about 5 minutes before San Sebastian people started shouting some stuff in Spanish from the back seat. Then silence followed, the driver pushed some buttons and the side door of the luggage compartment seemed to be opened and slowly closing. We have been driving with an open side door for a while!!!

Some cars started overtaking us and pointing in various ways in the form of a luggage - so we guessed some must have fallen out. At this point all I had with me in the bus was the book on photography I got for my birthday from my parents and all my luggage including the camera and everything was in the trunk. So the driver got out, called some people on the mobile and then we continued the trip in a deadly silence to our final destination.
Once arrived, he opened the compartment, people actually stormed down the bus and all the trunk was kind of half empty and all the remaining luggage chaotically lying around. thank god my stuff was all there but only because I did spend some extra time putting it exactly in the middle of the bus. So, children - what do we learn out of this event? NEVER PUT YOUR LUGGAGE ON THE SIDE WHEN YOU ARE TAKING A BUS FROM BILBAO TO SAN SEBASTIAN. punto - end of story. I know it was boring but there is a slight learning so stop complaining.

Oh yes - one more thing - the music the bus driver had been listening to sounded like "German Volksmusik" - with the harmonica and the yodelling part :-)

What else happened? I took like 500 pictures of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao that I have uploaded in the meantime so you can check them by clicking on the one below. Ok, it is only a selection, but you get the feeling ...

The building is very impressive, totally worth a visit and it is much better than the stuff being displayed on the inside. Although the Anselm Kiefer exhibition was quite good I must say. Plus that little doggie in the front is just adorable ...

In the end I arrived at San Sebastian totally on time shortly after 7 and walked to my new home for the next three weeks in the Gros area of the city. The Spanish girl I would "share" the flat with is very niiiiice - she works for some bank and looks very spanish and speaks a perfect English - and has very cool friends that were there in the evening. Only problem is, that since 2 weeks she is working in Madrid so she is never there except on the weekends when I am planning to be away. so much for "sharing". Anyway - my other flatmate is a Swedish girl that has a French boyfriend so she was in France for the weekend to see him and is supposedly coming back on Monday. Vamos A ver ...

I also went for a walk to check out the neighbourhood - I live about 5 minutes from the Zurriola beach - the ones with the surfers and about 2 minutes away from the hotel we are going to stay at during the wedding. The city is extremely friendly and beautiful and I am looking forward to spend some quality time here!!!