My post from yesterday has not yet been uploaded because I can't get on wifi. So they will probably be in the wrong order.
Well, its not so bad to wake up in the middle of the night when you have a thriller book to read. Unfortunately, my watch is stuck on California time, and I was too out of it to figure out what time it was.
I ended up reading for 3 hours from 3 am to 6 am, then sleeping until 11. Oops. There went my morning.
(Sm)ash and I went for a walk along the water and through old town San Sebastian. We stopped by the local farmers market and bought some goods for lunch then strolled around the beach taking in the views. the water is unbelievably turquoise.
We worked through all the different possibilities of where we will go on our bike trip and made sure we had all the things we needed.
Then I walked around town a bit to explore. I stopped by the San Sebastian convention center (http://lembranzas-ines.blogspot.com/2011/09/chagall-en-la-sala-kubo-kutxa-de-san.html) to see a nice free Chagall exhibit before after getting lost in the grocery store. I love going to grocery stores in other countries. All the possibilities, getting ready for some chocolate covered digestives, yum!
At the beginning of our walk, we ran into a guy moving things out of a small storage space. Nosey me looked in and saw 3 tandem bikes hanging. I asked the guy and it turns out that it is a center for the blind. The bikes are used to take the vision impaired on bike rides (much like they do at BORP). I was hoping to join them for a ride while in town, but it looks like there are not any organized rides during the next two weeks.
Short story long, the same mover saw us on the way back from our long walk and said, "cago en diez, como os lo paseis?" Their was of saying holy crap, you went for a long walk or something like that. Instead of saying shitting on god, they say shitting on 10. The same as our holy crap/hot damn vs. holy shit.
Anyway, that is all I learned today...tomorrow: up early, off to pamplona to get our bicicletas.
photos to come.
