Day 21: San Sebastián, Spain - Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France

Today is three weeks that I have been in Europe.  I feel like there's no way it has only been three weeks. 

Today was a lot of fun, and much more relaxed that yesterday. at 9h 30, we met in the lobby and walked to the aquarium of San Sebastian.  It was cool and cloudy, and it was a pretty nice walk.

Here's the harbor on Saturday morning.

  The aquarium was very cool.  It began with a museum of the maritime history of the area.  It seemed interesting, but we didn't have a ton of time there, so I didn't see it all.  The fish exhibits were pretty cool.  There was a huge tank with an under water tube to see the animals.  It was very cool.

It was cool to be so close to animals like the shark.

If anybody makes a Finding Nemo joke, I will block you from this publication.

As far as I could tell, these jelly fish were just too damn lazy to actually swim.

This was in the gift shop, but I don't think he was on display the day we were there. Bummer. :/

After the aquarium, we headed back in the direction of our hotel to eat, and then catch our bus.

Dad, I figured you'd like these bendy rocks.

For lunch, we found a cafe on a side street near our hotel.  I got tapas for lunch.  It was pretty good.

 This is my tapas.  The stuff on the left was this like deep dried cream puff.  It had some sort of cheese based cream and some type of ham in it.  On plate two is a big mushroom with some bread and sauce, some sardines on bread and a very tiny sub sandwich.  Then there are some artichoke hearts and olives and peppers.  The drink is some kind of really tasty lemon soda.  It was a good lunch. After, I got some sorbet made from fresh strawberries.  It was terrible.




At 14h 00 we left San Sebastian for St Jean-de-Luz, France.  This is a quaint, tiny fishing village south of Biarritz, and very close to Spain.  The only problem is that lately lots of people have apparently discovered how nice and quaint St Jean-de-Luz is, and it is becoming very gentrified.  It was still a very nice place. 

Boats in the harbor of St. Jean-de-Luz

We didn't do very much there, mostly because we were so tired from from Spain.  We did go see the Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptist.  This is an early gothic church that housed the wedding of Louie XIV.  It was very ornate, but a little dark, as there are not many windows in this architecture.

 After visiting the church, we just explored the streets.  The streets were packed and bustling with people.  Things here were a little more expensive, but it was a nice place.

People hustling and bustling.

 When we got back to Pau, I went out with Laura and Erin and we got pizza.  We took it to Laura's room and we watched Arrested Development.  It was a lot of fun and a good end to the day/trip.