About halfway into the drive we hit the mountains and along with it driving rain, fog, wind and a series of tunnels one of which was an easy 1.5 miles long or maybe more. Arriving into San Sebastian we got a great tour of the small alleyways and side streets while attempting to locate the parking lot and get to our hotel for the next few nights. Just like in Pamplona they have fantastic underground parking here, not so fantastic is the 25 Euro a day for parking but it's still cheaper than a train.
San Sebastian is very tropical looking, it reminds me of pictures I've seen of Monte Carlo and other towns on the French Riveria except it's cold and raining. KMJ found us a great hotel that was literally 100 feet from the parking garage and we settled in for a brief siesta before heading out to find her some warmer clothes since neither of us really packed expecting 45 degree wet weather. After an extended tour of the general area we found an H&M that had what she needed so it was time for dinner.
The tapas here are known as Pintxos and tend to more seafood and small sandwich focused that what we had in Barcelona and Pamplona; they're also very inexpensive at around 1.50 Euro compared to 5,00 Euro in other places. We hit several places and had a variety of local specialties like salmon stuffed with crab, cheese ball, and a personal favorite of onion jam, brie and sun dried tomato. Add a couple glasses of Vino Tinto (house red wine) for 2,00 Euro each and then repeat a few times and you have dinner.
After dinner we walked down by the water where the rain had stopped and lo and behold the sun was shining through on the horizon . Inspired by the moment i pulled off my socks and shoes and walked down into the water which was surprisingly warm.
Tomorrow we have the big dinner at Arzak, so look back for a full report on that in the next day or two.
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