San Sebastian is in the North Eastern corner of Spain, on the Atlantic coast. It is the capital of Basque Country. Less than 10 miles from the French border, it has a very French flavor. Architecturally it is much more like Paris than anything we've seen in Spain.
Tomorrow night we have reservations for Arzak, but we mostly are just taking it easy today. Had an excruciating wait for 9PM for the restaurants to open for dinner. A major issue has been, on travel days, we don't get settled in to our hotel until after local restaurants have closed for lunch. An oddity to Spanish culture is that... they just close. Like - lunch is from 1 to 3. If you get there after 3, you ain't eating until 9PM at the earliest. ALL of the restaurants close.
The attached photo is the view from our room ;)
Wandering around San Sebastian a bit more today, we made some important discoveries. If you want to eat, the place to go is old town - about half a mile down the beach from where our hotel is. There are a bazilliion and one tapas bars (they call them Pintxos here, pronounced "peenchos"). No wonder there was no food near our hotel - everyone's down the street!
ReplyDeleteWe found that in Italy too. Whenever I was ready to eat, the restaurants were closed.
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