Bilbao, San Sebastian - and Dylan

I´m glad we visited Bilbao, although we didn´t see much more than the Guggenheim. You cannot miss it - the huge dog made from flowers out front (see right), or the glass / titanium building itself. I loved the permanent collection, including some steel snake-like structures and the modern art pieces, but didn´t find the Russia exhibition as interesting. We ended our trip there with a very thick, lumpy hot chocolate (the last one I´m trying in Spain), then it was onto San Sebastian...

People end up staying a long time in San Sebastian and I can see why. It has 3 beaches, generally good weather, beautiful mountains framing it and lots of money... enough money for a Bob Dylan concert followed by fireworks and a beach party. It's too resort-y for me to ever want to live there, but it´s definitely a nice place to relax for a while.

We didn´t get up to much here: admired the view from the top of Mt Igueldo (see above), went to the beach (see right), browsed the shops, cooked some vegetables (finally a respite from tapas), met a LOT of Aussies on BusAbout and of course, went to the Dylan concert.

I think the concert disappointed a lot of people, as he didn´t sing his supposedly most famous song, Hurricane (I´ve never considered that his most famous, but I realise now that most do), the sound quality was quite bad and Dylan sang in his usual mumbly way, not sticking to the usual melodies - it made for an interesting game of ´pick the song´. It was still great though and the crowd went crazy for Like a Rolling Stone.