Flat Ground!
- hollandauctions
- Sep 29, 2023
- 2 min read
Okay first a couple of pics left over from yesterday... these are compliments of Serin..
Playing 'La Rada' at the albergue in Ponzueta... all you have to do is throw a disk into the mouth of the frog... after many hundreds of throws, only two were able to achieve it...
From the same pintxos bar I had the Sangria last night, these pintxos include a tortilla with cheese, a squid ink pintxos topped with fried calamari, a cream of chorizo, and a goat cheese pintxos.. In the foreground is a plate of patatas bravas...
These were two of my pintxos at Gure Toki, one of the top bars in Bilbao... On the left is Cod with seaweed, and on the right is a Boiled egg with potato and mushroom...
View from my albergue in Bilbao...
A salted Cod shop...
The stairs of Bilbao...
Cafe con leche y un tortilla, por favor!
A little sightseeing before leaving Bilbao!
Did somebody say pintxos? Yes, please!
A view along the river in Bilbao...
I believe this is the train station in Bilbao...
Bilbao City Hall...
Approaching the Guggenheim...
A sculpture near the museum...
The Guggenheim Museum...
The famous spider...
Everybody should have their balls washed regularly...
Winner of best Guggenheim picture is Serin and Jo, who took this photo at 7am as the sun was rising over the museum...
Cool outdoor, living museum, where they salvaged old boats and actually work on restoring them as well as having them on display...
Some of the boats they have on display. .
The walk to Portugalete is long, hot, and made through mainly uninspiring industrial lands, but this old building stands out...
Cool bridge construction coming into Portugalete...
Graffiti as art..
Gasoline prices in Portugalete... For my American friends, add 10% for the exchange and then multiply by 3.78 to get from litres to gallons... ouch!
Finally arrived in Portugalete ...
Here you can see the gondola car halfway across the river...
Upon entering the city, I rush to meet Serin and Jo, who are finishing lunch with Josh, whom we met several nights ago, and have been trying to hook up with. He waits around just longvenoughbto swap a couple of road stories, and then is off, and we all continue to our albergue for the evening. Loads of laundry and updated blog posts later, we make our way to a Mexican Cantina...
Frozen margaritas, one of my faves!
Dinner is chicken enchiladas in sauce verde, which tastes much better than this picture looks! Then it's off to bed for a long walk tomorrow..
Distance walked today- 18kms
TOTAL DISTANCE WALKED SO FAR- 199KMS
Bilbao looks like it was an interesting stop! I love the outdoor escalators and I think we have that spider’s twin at the art museum in Ottawa.
The Guggenheim!?! The architecture ... the gigantic spider ... the shiny balls!
Speechless!
Keep on trekking...
Curious now if you thought to weigh yourself before leaving home.
Your shadow is definitely trimmer as the days go by. Must be that Mediterranean diet?
Wowow, 200 kms is no small feat!
Bilboa looks like that town that Rocky guy ran up and down the stairs in in that movie!
'Everbody should wash thier balls regularly.' DON'T, just don't. It's also a bit tich coming from a Frenchman!
The food and markets looks really amazing, but that cod and boiled egg... I dunno!
Btw, a little bit v of wisdom: never use the escalator, always use the stairs - is good for exercise! Bet you didn’t think of that. 😉
Great job Lawrence! Keep it up!
I'm very surprised about the prices of gas though, as they are almost as high as the price in France (though we're even a bit higher) and from where I live, I go to Spain to get gas because it's normally much cheaper - here diesel is 1.97€ and in Spain we can get it at 1,50/1,60€. Maybe a difference between eastern and western sides of Spain!?