Bilbao has a medieval old town and today we spent the day
wandering through it and enjoying ourselves.
Just after noon we went into a small bar to have a pre-luncheon drink
and ended up having a really nice conversation with two Basque gentlemen, the
first, Archimedes (no joke) and his friend who we could not pronounce were
totally charming. We spent an hour or so
chatting, in Spanish, about the wines of the region and how the rose wines from
Navarra are so great as well as how the California wines stack up. You all know the drill by now; blah, blah, blah, vino Rosado, blah
California vino blah blah. But to help
us out Archimedes also spoke a fair amount of French so it wasn’t totally lost
(at least on Deb). And just to reinforce our impression of the warmth of the Spanish Archimedes bought us a glass of wine. We had a lunch of
Pinxtos, the Basque equivalent of tapas and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. After lunch we went to the museum of Basque
culture and saw quite a roundup of culture over the last 900 years or so. A bit of rain today but nothing to speak of.
Prehistoric stone hog
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