Cara- San Sebastiàn

I went to San Sebastian two weekends ago!

It didn't really look like this though. There were only about half as many people on the beach and no one swimming because it was kind of cold. To get there, we went by car. My friend Carole drove and it took about 3 hours but I'm not really sure cause I was sleeping or trying to the whole way.
San Sebastian is on the northern coast of Spain in "Pais Vasco" or Basque Country. If you ask someone there if they're Spanish they'll say no. They're Basque. They also have basque names for all the towns in the region, like Donostia instead of San Sebastian, and for all the foods that are essentially the same. 4 of us, Michael, Claire, Carole and I stayed in a little pink hostel a ways from downtown. Andrej, however, to save money and time, slept on the beach. Here's where we found him in the a.m.
He looked very peaceful.
The first day we mostly spent walking up and down the beach and climbing to the top of this hill that had a statue of Jesus on top (who do the think they are, rio?)
The view from the top was nice but it was cloudy so the pictures aren't really all that swell. That night we went for pinxtos, basque for tapas, and explored downtown a little more, but we had to be back at the hostel by 4 before they shut the doors.
The next day we walked to the west end of the beach where they had these big rocks and metal sculptures
It was a Sunday so there were a ton of families and couples visiting. They were really neat and you could climb down the side of the cliff there and hang around on the rocks.
We also went up another mountain in the funicular, which is like a diagonally climbing train. It took us up to a really pretty building with a spectacular view of the western side of the coast where there were cliffs and a lighthouse. With the cloudy sky it was all very Masterpiece Theatre.
As I mentioned earlier, I was very very sick for this whole trip so I didn't get as much enjoyment out of it as I would've liked. I also hate being the needy one in a group. Unfortunately, I didn't feel any better the next week and am just now starting to get back to my old self. But it was beautiful, and relatively inexpensive. Once we split the gas it was 15 Euros each, and then the hotel was 17 Euros, and food wasn't unbelievably expensive, I'd say I spent about 20 Euros on that, maybe less. so about 50 Euros in all is rather tolerable I'd say!