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The Basque Country is a delicious smorgasbord of hiking adventure for all levels. Our third hike was short (only 3.5 hours!) and easy in comparison to the other adventures we experienced while based in San Sebastian. I think Scott picked this hike for it name, “XOXO(te).” Check out the trail map first. We found happily grazing ponies among the picnic tables at the parking lot...
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The day after the marathon in San Sebastian left us carless and forced me to navigate my half planned hike from our apartment to Pasaia, we set off on Scott’s originally determined and mostly well researched hike in Parque National Pagoeta on routes 4001 and 4002. We drove to Aia, a small village situated on the slopes of Mount Pagoeta in the Basque province of...
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We spent two weeks in beautiful San Sebastian, Spain, the perfect mix of mountains, city and sea. This is La Concha beach, minutes from our apartment and very cold, but Ashley couldn’t stay out of the water. She actually swam twice in the Bay of La Concha and the first time came out of the water before her allotted half hour was up (I was...
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San Sebastian is known for Pinxtos. I learned this while researching towns that might be good for us to spend time in while we looked around Spain. People go to San Sebastian to surf and eat. There are a lot of other attractions of course, but at first glance you may think that the best thing in the area is a night spent eating pintxos....
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We had one night to spend somewhere on our trek from Madrid to San Sebastian and so after our snow adventure we continued north until we began to get tired of being in the car. This is hot chocolate. It comes with a cup of steamed milk and we discovered it in a bar/restaurant on our way out of Toledo when the kids ordered Cola...
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